Word: rougher
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According to Heller, the effective collaboration between Knowles and Summers is not likely to stop the President from selecting “someone rougher around the edges—imaginative, bold, more like Summers himself...
...sciences? These controversies get coverage in the text, but not on the cover. Instead it’s implied that things are quite rosy today, but that the book might provide a good chuckle with its history of our “foresisters who had it way rougher than [us] back when ‘Cliffie bitch’ was a common term and Radcliffe was ‘the Annex...
...this year's inspired works, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie from Montmartre. Both Bong and Jeunet have an eye for eccentric detail, produce a bagful of tricks and visual kink and find the most unlikely "feel good factor." Dogs' bark is more hysterical and a notch or two rougher than Amelie. Part Hitchcock's Rear Window, part Monty Python's Parrot Sketch, Bong's Dogs may be this year's most inventive Asian film...
...while the passage through Malaysia may be smooth for both sides, once the refugees arrive in Indonesia, they face a rougher ride. Even the most desperate gambler would blanch at the odds on surviving the final, crucial journey to Australia: some 4,500 refugees have landed in Australia in the past two years. But during the same period almost 800 have been officially classified as lost at sea, and some think that may be a serious underestimate. To get a sense of the risk, listen to the Middle-Eastern businessman who Jacky says is his boss, the man who heads...
...technocrats, economists and businessmen throughout Asia, the work ahead will only get rougher in the wake of Sept. 11?and be anything but normal. That was the day that CNBC buzzwords like "defensive positions" and "collateral damage" took on frightening new meanings. Economists became psychologists: Will American consumers fall victim to a collective post-traumatic stress disorder, too stunned to buy exports from Asia? Financial analysts put aside their valuation models to study troop movements, diplomatic machinations and the mind-set of Islamic terrorists. Phenomena like China's entry into the World Trade Organization are still of importance...