Word: shrills
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What's more Partisan, shrill and exhausting than presidential politics? The eternal conflict between Microsoft and Apple, of course. While the race to the White House will, mercifully, be over soon, the decades-long battle between Macs and PCs--with the negative ads and trash-talking bigwigs--will persist until cockroaches inherit the earth. You think taxes are just a political issue? A few weeks ago, as Apple prepared to launch its new line of laptops, Microsoft execs were on the stump, criticizing what they call the "Apple tax," the premium consumers pay for Macs with the same power...
...Village Voice and Playboy, which ran a story that Paul Haggis expanded into the sharpest of last year's Iraq-related dramas, In the Valley of Elah. These two filmmakers have pooled their complementary talents to make one of the rare war movies that's strong but not shrill, and sympathetic to guys doing an impossible...
...West was poised for bad news from the May 11 parliamentary vote in Serbia, where often shrill nationalist tones dominated the final days of the campaign. Instead it got good news: the pro-European Democratic Party emerged victorious, defeating the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party and their allies. The Democrats, led by President Boris Tadic, won some 37% of the vote, or 103 out of 250 seats, which should enable Tadic to dominate Serbia's policies for the next several years. The Radicals came a distant second, with 77 seats, which works out at 29.1% while the Democratic Party of Serbia...
...mission - and soon. Then the real work begins: E.U. diplomats say the key to establishing a stable Kosovo will be to offer moderate Serbs there better economic prospects than the nationalism-tinged promises of Belgrade politicians and their Moscow backers. For that reason alone, the shrill tones from Belgrade are unlikely to fade anytime soon...
...would you compare the level of youth activism now to when you were in the Senate? MG: Probably it was more shrill when I was last in office because we were at the height of the Vietnam War. It had just been completed. The youth had really taken to the streets because of what the amount of death and what the country was doing. After the conservative revolution with Ronald Reagan, it almost seemed like the youth went to sleep or focused on a new area of interest...