Word: shock
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...reason No. 3 that is the most interesting. The Administration and its supporters think--and this is going to shock you--that France is pursuing an independent Iraq policy out of naked self-interest. Chirac, in this view, is seeking to curry favor with the Islamic world and using France's disagreement with the U.S. to re-establish its political leadership in the European Union and become a rival to U.S. power...
...time to get real," said Joan Kaner, Neiman Marcus' fashion director. "Fashion is not about frivolity and shock." American fashion, of course, has never been big on risk taking. Designers in the U.S. are predictable in their dedication to sportswear, leaving shock tactics to their European colleagues. Along with predictability comes safety, a belief that certain designers--the triumvirate of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan--are fashion's bedrock. But all of a sudden there was a tectonic shift, as if Klein's departure left everything else on shifting sand...
Ashton B. Carter, who served as assistant secretary of defense from 1993 to 1996, said that Clinton administration officials devised plans to invade North Korea in 1994 but balked because the civilian death toll would “shock the conscience of the world...
...reason No. 3 that is the most interesting. The Administration and its supporters think - and this is going to shock you - that France is pursuing an independent Iraq policy out of naked self-interest. Chirac, in this view, is seeking to curry favor with the Islamic world and using France's disagreement with the U.S. to re-establish its political leadership in the European Union and become a rival to U.S. power...
...Cash, September came last week, as Americans coped with a more general mourning. And if some felt shock at the news of Cash's passing, they could segue into celebration over a difficult life made exemplary, an outlaw redeemed by a woman's devotion. Besides, if you believe, the Man in Black is now garbed in white, and the doting husband has eternity to spend with his beloved. In a song she composed on the day of Cash's death, country singer Shelby Lynne imagines a sweet reconciliation--the next act of a beautiful duet on a new stage...