Word: shrills
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...This is terror. There are no red lines. They are shooting at ambulances on the road preventing them from coming here," says a distraught Mona Mrowe, an administrator at the Jabel Amel hospital in Tyre, her voice sounding shrill with tension and anger. "I have felt death very close. Yesterday was really ...." Her voice trails off into silence...
...Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat, or some other tome on globalization. It was a slim Japanese volume called The Dignity of a State. Written by mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara, the book is ostensibly a nostalgic call to return to ancient Japanese virtues. But it's also a shrill rant that blames free markets for a wide assortment of Japan's?and the world's?woes. "Globalism," Fujiwara writes, "is merely a strategy of the U.S. that seeks world domination after the Cold War." The author also calls the market economy "a system that clearly divides the society into...
...judging for oneself is not allowed. Or, rather, if one judges and judges wrongly, well, you will be judged, too. Commentators at the Huffington Post were intuiting of one critic, who dared describe Colbert as "shrill and airless","If you don't like what Colbert had to say then you are a radical right winger... You're a killer in a SUV with blinders on with your foot plastered to the floor... You believe in torture, war, and murder of innocent lives." The critic in question happens to be my Nader-supporting, antiwar, vegetarian husband. But perhaps I'll think...
...including human rights, North Korea, and, of course, the elephant in the room: Chinese trade policy. But despite our disagreements, it is important to remember that economic protectionism is not the answer. As more and more items say “made in China” on them, the shrill voices of protectionists have grown ever louder. Upset that jobs are ostensibly being lost to China’s abundant supply of cheap labor and unorthodox currency policies, politicians, lobbyists, businesses, and others are trying to find ways to “level the playing field.” Among...
...window that morning.“I heard within probably five or 10 minutes of each other, a car screech in a really loud, sort of dragged out way,” Andreea Akerele ’08 said. “Also, I heard a very loud, shrill scream from what sounded like a relatively young woman.”Pasquarello said yesterday’s incident did not result from inadequate security.“A police car could have gone by 20 seconds earlier,” he said. “There?...