Word: sheering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...finished 449 off points for the day. The price of gold shot up by about $80 an ounce and the yield on the three-month Treasury bill maturing Dec. 18 dropped to 0.04% - from 0.68% the day before. "It's a total flight to quality, which points to the sheer panic that's out there," says S&P Equity Research strategist Alec Young...
...lies behind the scenes. The media cannot escape a measure of abstraction however they approach these atrocities on the page or screen, as it isn’t until we come face-to-face with the people involved in the trials and statistics that we begin to comprehend the sheer scale of what has happened...
...Maddow's patter naturally resonates most deeply with her fellow lefties. But just as liberals tuned in to Limbaugh for the sheer entertainment value of a great spieler reveling in his love of being on the radio, so conservatives can connect with Maddow's chipper intimacy, her skill at marshaling arguments without bullying the listener, her gift for sounding more or less middling to either side. Unlike many hosts on the radio and TV left and right, Maddow majors in common sense and shies away from conspiracy theories - though she did push the notion that Jeb Bush would be this...
...took one of John McCain's biggest weaknesses among Republicans and turned it into a strength. The conservative Christian leader Richard Land has said that what makes the base of the party so uncomfortable with McCain is not so much his unorthodoxy as his sheer unpredictability. They're never sure what he'll do next. But along comes Palin, McCain's wildest move yet - the Top Gun fighter jock, alone in his jet, throwing the stick hard over just to see what might happen - and she turns out to be everything the base could dream of. For at least...
...When you ask Hirst about his early influences, it's not an artist he brings up first. It's Charles Saatchi, a former ad tycoon and collector who established a gallery in 1985 to show his own collection. The sheer size of the place made Hirst think big. "I had never seen a gallery of that scale," he says. "Britain was always small. Then Saatchi came and put things on a big f___ing American scale. So I just started making work like that. It didn't matter that I didn't know where...