Word: shrug
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Helen’s shrug is far from unique, seemingly representative of a generation inured to the seriousness of medication—The Ritalin Generation...
Americans have resigned themselves to an inexorable fate. With a sigh and a shrug, they pull the gas pump off its handle, swipe their credit card, and cringe as the price meter climbs so fast that the dollar digit seems stuck at eight. Frustrated at their bills, they might rant to their friends, or perhaps even call their congressman...
Once in a while, a new member has to join the club; otherwise, there would be no movies to make sequels of. Three years ago, that film was Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. It vaulted from prerelease shrug to summer smash, earning $305 million in North America and $652 million worldwide. So here comes the sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (opening July 7), which was shot at the same time as Pirates III, due out next summer...
...Rice did her best to shrug off the catcalls, stressing her belief in the necessity of the Iraq war and even trying to spin the demonstrations as support for the Bush Administration's "freedom agenda." ?People have the right to protest,? she said at one point. "That's what democracy is all about. And I'm just delighted that in more and more of the world, those rights to speak your mind are being extended to other people for whom that right has not been there...
...With tensions rising ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's scheduled trip to Washington next month, is it possible that the U.S.-China trade relationship is about to go off the rails? Global markets shrug it off when the French throw a hissy fit and race to protect their vital national yogurt industry, as they did last year, or when pundits pretend it matters which European Union country owns what gas utility. But a trade war between the U.S. and China?with each side taking punitive, protectionist steps to shut out the other's products, services and investments?poses...