Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed beyond imagining that a bank like Barings could be utterly undone, sapped of more than a billion dollars--nearly twice its available capital--in a few weeks of reckless financial gambling by a single person. Around the world staff members were in shock. Many were about to receive their annual bonuses. Now, in Barings outposts outside Britain, passports were being confiscated, properties frozen, company credit cards rescinded, salaries withheld-just as tax time approached. "We were a bank with a crest, not a trademark," said one Hong Kong employee in dismay. Indeed, Barings was one of the Queen...
...hypocrites of the religious right do not advocate freedom and liberation of the oppressed--they are the shock troops of cultural repression. These are the people that Pat Buchanan was appealing to at the 1992 GOP convention when he called for a "cultural war." They bristle at multicultural education, confuse patriotism with xenophobia and believe that morality can be legally enforced. They tremble with rage when a progressive woman like Hillary Clinton wields authority...
...book because, he writes, "I hope my story will help anyone who has to face adversity...Maybe I can prevent one teenager from being infected with HIV, and maybe I can give hope to people who are in abusive relationships...It's not my intention to shock anyone, but looking objectively at some of what I've lived through, even I find parts of my life shocking...
Peninsula continues to wage its political battles the only way it knows how: without reference to methodical thinking or subtle argumentation. There is nothing probing about these photographs, nothing instructive. They will not convince anyone, and by now, they will probably not shock too many either. They sure do come in handy, though, when you desperately want to grind an ideological ax without getting caught up in the messiness of serious contemplation...
Furry Tales rec.pet.cats is for serious cat lovers. But the occasional mischiefmaker shows up and posts hair-raising descriptions of feline abuse designed to shock the regular denizens...