Word: torrid
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...fighting over the correct way to classify the feral Irwin. But during these days of brand marketing, what is the harm if people think Australians are excitable, love the outdoors and are high on life? Or that Australia is all frontier, with alien wildlife, dusty roads and a torrid climate? Why not let people hold those exotic thoughts, even if the reality is more mundane? If foreigners visit, or come to know their own Australian one day, they'll soon learn enough to think of us in the round. It may be an anti-climax, but not a bad experience...
Hook-up: 1. Torrid affair of a sexual nature, often lasting less than a single night and devoid of any emotion or commitment. Often the choice of students over the alternative “date” or “relationship...
...Fuad Amin, whom people close to Zidane said had leveled a racial slur against the player. Zidane was also forced to defend his Algerian identity - and pride in Algeria's fight against the French - in response to charges, first leveled by a Le Pen flunky but echoed during a torrid Algeria-France match, that Zidane's father had been a harki, the term loosely translated as collaborator and used to describe Algerians who had fought for France in the colonial...
...sold over 100,000 Slingboxes in the U.S. since introducing it there less than a year ago, with the price at around $200. While those numbers don't get into iPod or TiVo territory, Krikorian argues that Slingbox is outpacing most debut devices. "We're actually on a pretty torrid pace for a new technology,'' he says. It's helped that critics have raved about his gizmo. "Once you have it, you'll wonder why everyone else doesn't," gushed msnbc in March. True, the setup can be tricky - users have to tie the device into an Internet router...
...dollar - and, presumably, make Chinese goods more expensive, American goods cheaper and the U.S. trade deficit lower. All China did was stick by a promise laid out last year to move away from an economy that is export-driven and not consumer-driven and is growing at a torrid 10% annually. The two countries trade more than ever but their systems remain dramatically out of whack. For instance, in China the savings rate is 53%; the U.S. rate is often negative, meaning Americans spend more than they earn...