Word: shrug
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...Muslim League government in Calcutta, and the rest of the party across the undivided subcontinent, found the "evidence" it needed for its two-nations theory in the riots it inspired in Calcutta. In 1984 the Congress Party more or less condoned with a shrug the massacre of Sikhs. The Muslim League got its Pakistan, and the Congress was re-elected in the general elections that followed the Sikh slaughter. But the consequences of both "achievements" have haunted this subcontinent...
It’s not surprising that when most people hear such figures they shrug and ask what they can do about them. Statistics such as these have become commonplace in the U.S. as the U.N. and other international organizations come up with appeals for funding from the richest government in the world. You have probably also heard that about half the world’s population, or three billion people, live on less than...
...television interviewer that he had seen Schill use cocaine at his election victory celebration, the prosecutor's office opened a criminal investigation. Calling the charges "a perfidiously launched dirty campaign," Schill flew to Munich to take a drug test, which proved negative. But other problems are harder to shrug off. Mario Mettbach, a member of Schill's party who was appointed public- works minister, made the mistake of hiring his girlfriend as his personal assistant at a salary of $3,500 a month. When newspapers got wind of the story, the girlfriend resigned and Mettbach was forced to apologize. Recent...
...Would disabling all stolen IMEI numbers be such a bad idea? "Imagine you have 100 phones with the same IMEI, and you cut them all off," says Jack Wraith, a spokes-man for the U.K.'s Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum. "One person will complain, and 99 criminals will shrug and say, 'Well, I had a good time while it lasted...
...American audiences intellectualize the work, they really try to get into it. But in Peru, people come into the gallery and shrug and say ‘that’s nice’ and leave. Latin Americans don’t value this sort of art as much as they should,” McCord said...