Word: soured
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...faces of despair beamed daily on evening newscasts since Hurricane Katrina first barreled through the Gulf Coast two weeks ago left a sour impression on Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Associate Professor of Public Policy Guy N. Stuart, who was struck by the ubiquitous images of black evacuees in the chaos...
...Sharif may have been killed by the insurgents after the talks went sour. Or, possibly, because the talks were going too well. Divisions within the insurgency have begun to appear, with gun battles between Iraqi resistance cells and the foreign fighters led by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Could al-Zarqawi's followers have abducted al-Sharif in an effort to thwart his negotiations with a rival insurgent group? If Egypt or other Arab intermediaries were able to persuade some insurgents to join the political process, al-Zarqawi would be more isolated in Iraq...
...policy was widely anticipated after the World Trade Organization last year decided that the E.U. was infringing international trade rules by giving subsidies to its sugar exporters that distort the world market. But the cuts announced by E.U. Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel were deeper than expected, and prompted a sour reaction from Europe's sugar industry, which accounts for 13% of world production. Shares in Britain's Tate & Lyle tumbled after it warned that profits could be reduced by more than $150 million over the next two years. Other losers are the least efficient E.U. sugar growers, mainly in Greece...
...separation five years ago; his frequent companion, as British newspapers phrase it, is Claire Tomalin, literary editor of the London Sunday Times. Frayn says he remains close to his daughters, one a novice BBC staffer, another a would-be journalist, the third applying to universities. He admits that his sour descriptions of beleaguered parenthood and the "squalor of middle-class domestic life" derive from memory. But he adds, in a line echoing the sensibility of Benefactors and his other work so aptly that it might be his literary credo, "One always has great nostalgia for experiences that were emotionally intense...
...Israel committed a hijacking in 1954, seizing a Syrian civilian plane. Also in 1954 Israel engaged in subversive acts in Egypt, in the so-called Lavon scandal. [A reference to Israeli attacks on Western targets in Egypt. The strikes were made to appear as Egyptian terrorism in order to sour Egyptian-Western relations during sensitive negotiations on the withdrawal of British troops from the Suez Canal.] In 1973 Israel shot down a Libyan Boeing 727, causing the deaths of more than 100 civilian passengers . . . Last February, Israel hijacked a Libyan plane carrying a Syrian political delegation. These are some...