Word: uglier
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...city with all its diversions that could be lowered from the air by balloon. The philosopher Francis Bacon once wrote that "the monuments of wit survive the monuments of power." If that's true, then these whimsical flights of fancy will still be around long after some of the uglier skylines have crumbled. Let's hope...
...elsewhere in Europe fans have got uglier. Some in France direct taunts known as "cris des singes"--monkey yelps--at the growing crop of African players, who face similar insults in Spain and Italy. In France top club Paris St.-Germain has hard-core neo-Nazi fans who chant racist and homophobic slurs and bombard visiting players with objects of all kinds...
...Laden tape roils the campaign; the Halliburton probe gets uglier; the art world's child prodigies...
...charges of cronyism weren't bad enough, the inside story of the government's decision to award a controversial no-bid contract to Halliburton is taking on overtones of even uglier "isms": racism and sexism. Whistle-blower Bunnatine (Bunny) Greenhouse, the most senior civilian contracting official in the Army Corps of Engineers, is battling the Army's attempt to demote her after she objected in writing not just to, but literally on approval documents for the up to $7 billion contract awarded to a Halliburton subsidiary in March 2003 for the repair of Iraq's oil wells...
...It’s a business where, because the bottom line is winning...I think campaigns have gotten, as participation has dropped and the special interest money has risen, uglier and uglier and more difficult, and that’s unfortunate because it’s keeping a lot of good people from politics...