Word: speechless
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...remarking on the unseasonably warm weather. Cameras were brought back in for an exchange of gifts, followed by quick handshakes and blessings for five members of the White House staff and a Secret Service agent. Some of these aides, frequent visitors to the Oval Office, were struck literally speechless with respect, so communication was mostly by body language. All were concerned about the protocol of this once-in-a-lifetime moment. One of them said it was so surreal she was unsure if she was supposed to clasp the Pope's hand the way she usually does because she didn...
...same time, President Botha made it clear how strongly he disagreed with criticism from overseas. Sputtering that he was "speechless" at the steps taken by France, Botha said, "It amazes me that a Western government that takes an interest in Africa and in the interests of black people can take exception to a government that restores order when Communist powers and Communist-inspired powers murder black people and try to disrupt the normal life of black communities...
...freedom as being able to come and go as he pleases, beholden to no entity. Counters the mustachioed, cross-trainer-wearing Onassis, "I have met the forces of this world. I have danced and wrestled with its gods. I collude with destiny. ? That is freedom." Surprisingly, Hart leaves Owen speechless at this, cutting away to a final shot of Worner's coffee company logo being raised over the caf? we saw at the beginning. Is it a dose of reality or cynicism that makes Hart end most his Hutch stories unhappily...
Everybody talks about the weather, but James O'Brien is often rendered speechless by it. He's spent hours watching how snow forms drifts around buildings and how mud moves when someone steps in it. O'Brien, 34, is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the world's top experts on how to make computers simulate complex physical systems--such as waves, snowdrifts, viscoelastic fluids (goopy stuff, like mud) and (his favorite) explosions. His work lends a layer of reality to computer games and film animation in which wind, rain...
...something more respectable, but he is reluctant to do so. "I can't trust the company," Akutsu says, "but I like the car. At least the tires haven't come off." Others are less forgiving. Shoichi Nakagawa, Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, recently said he was "speechless from disgust" over the company's "malicious" behavior. Public goodwill is dissipating at a critical juncture: Mitsubishi lost $1.9 billion in its 2003 fiscal year, and management is forecasting similarly dismal results for 2004 due to plummeting sales. Since April, its stock has fallen...