Word: shocker
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...doubles [loss] was kind of a shocker,” Durkin said. “I think we have the ability to beat that team...
...varsity’s 6.4-second shocker over No. 1 Princeton was the closest margin of the season for Harvard. With a 17-second thrashing of No. 4 Navy on April 23, the Crimson left little doubt about its perennial dual-season dominance...
...Florida is back, and if you thought eyebrows raised last time, wait until you read The Flight of the Creative Class. Florida finds that competition for creative workers has gone global (no shocker) and that the U.S. is about to miss out on the best talent because of restrictive immigration policies, a lack of R&D spending, the culture wars and stepped-up competition from abroad (cue the maelstrom). Not only are Americans more likely to get sucked into such cities as Sydney and Dublin, writes Florida, but China and India are increasingly able to retain homegrown talent that...
...real shocker came with my follow-up question. How many farmers had used fertilizers in the past? Every hand in the room went up. Farmer after farmer described how the price of fertilizer was now out of reach, and how their current impoverishment left them unable to purchase what they had used in the past...
Bond Villains? No one ever said bond traders were gentlemen. But even by the bruising standards of this market, the rapid-fire sale of 12 billion euros' worth of European government bonds by a group of mainly London-based Citigroup traders last August was a shocker. Prices tumbled, and Citigroup promptly bought back 4 billion euros' worth of bonds for a tidy profit. Citigroup, the world's largest financial...