Word: souring
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...President's strident nationalism drew a sour reaction from his many critics. "Sarney declared war on the world today," said Fabio Feldman, a Congressman from Sao Paulo who is a vocal environmentalist. "He's trying to - rally public support around a discredited government." Feldman declared the Our Nature program itself "too academic and vague. It won't change a thing." Said another leading ecologist: "It is obvious that the intention of the program is not to save the Amazon but to appease foreign criticism...
Take our mandarin oranges. I once stayed in a Soviet hotel with a Japanese figure skater. He wanted to know what kind of fruit was on sale that was small, sour and green and got scooped up into bags. I told him they were mandarin oranges. "They can't be," he said. "I know what a mandarin orange is." What could I say? Maybe they get specially harvested as buds just for our people, so we'll walk around with sour faces...
Cooper points to the recession in the United States in 1982, which he calls "the worst recession since the Great Depression," as an example of the world economic situation going sour...
...long as Americans refuse to limit their spending and borrowing in both the private and public sectors, they will weaken the economic underpinnings -- and sour the psychological atmosphere -- of the U.S. position worldwide, especially in Asia. America's indebtedness, to itself and to the rest of the world, soaks up resources that might otherwise be invested to boost productivity and exports. Thus the budget deficit exacerbates the trade deficit, which in turn hurts the dollar and provokes protectionism...
...Generally speaking, LBOs are quite lucrative for investors," says Reich. But, he adds, "when the market turns sour, it may not be quite so lucrative...