Word: seasickness
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...Frederick gulped. The housemaid reached out and brought Frederick’s hands to rest above her heart. “I know I am not worthy,” she told him, her bosom heaving with emotion. Frederick’s eyes turned glassy; he looked a little seasick. “But it’s not too late,” she said. “Believe me.” The rest of her dress slid off her soaking body and floated away downriver in a swirl of virgin white. Frederick’s pasty lips...
Last year, when finance professor Robert Schwartz decided to put together a conference on volatility in the markets, nobody knew just how timely it would be. In the past few weeks, triple-digit swings in the Dow Industrials have become a matter of course, as seasick investors watch stocks bound up and down, pounded by the day's news, and often, it seems, for no discernable reason at all. In the first few minutes of trading on Friday, stock indexes dropped 5% as the double whammy of deleveraging and a worldwide economic slowdown continued to buffet company shares...
...money manager from Coral Springs, Fla., spent five years and a million dollars building a home theater. His setup includes 14 speakers, 16 amplifiers and 400 amps of current--more power than entire homes consume. "The system makes the speakers and walls disappear," says Messer. "You could get seasick watching Master and Commander in my theater...
...Anderson is notorious for rocking the boat in this conservative, primarily Mormon state, which happens to have the highest Bush approval rating in the U.S., and where three-fourths of their state legislators are Republicans. And though his latest antics are making many Utah residents seasick, the mayor has garnered a loyal following that includes a diverse and liberal group of people that reside primarily in Salt Lake City...
...options is nice, but the content itself isn't. I watched a Fox Sports segment called "Spurs have Pistons in Crosshairs," the trailer for "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and, under the Music Choice header, something called "Al Green - Everything's OK." Everything was not OK. It mostly made me seasick, the picture swirled in and out of resolution and the phone often had to re-buffer the data stream in the course of the playback. It felt as if the people who upload this stuff don't actually watch it themselves, or at least, don't watch it on their...