Word: uglier
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...concocting a formula under which Aristide would return only as a figurehead and the military leaders would retain the real power. But the conciliatory noises indicated the Haitian leaders were beginning to weaken under pressure and might bend further. In the meantime, events in Haiti continued to get uglier. Thugs called attaches -- officially auxiliary police but actually descendants of the Tontons Macoutes who enforced two generations of Duvalier dictatorship -- grandly proclaimed themselves the Revolutionary Council of Oct. 11 (the day of the riots that forced the Harlan County to turn back). On Thursday they occupied the National Assembly building...
...ugly fence along the U.S.-Mexico border is not achieving anything if we don’t remove the even uglier walls in the public mindset that separate American consumerism from the violence mere miles away. The simple fact is, if you’re doing drugs in the developed world, even recreational marijuana, you’re clearly involved in a morally compromising system. Comprehensive steps must be taken to rebuild a culture that takes little account of the ramifications of its practices. Certainly, this will be difficult, as much of the drug usage in developed countries is done...
...issue exploded this week, when the New York Times published a pair of stories tracking Harvard's industry ties. The school might have turned a whole new shade of crimson when its flunking grade from AMSA was made public last summer, but things got even uglier in November when 40 med students rallied on campus to demand that industry and academia make a clean break. The facts, they argued, justify their outrage. Of Harvard's 8,900 professors and lecturers, 1,600 admit that either they or a family member have had some kind of business link to drug companies...
...Where is the global economy heading from here? My concern right now is that this U-shaped recession we are in could turn into something much uglier, meaning a Japanese-style L-shaped recession. We're in the worst global synchronized recession in the last 60 years. Unless we take the right policy actions, we'll end up in a near depression. I did not want to use that term six months ago. At that time, I said the chances of a near depression were only 10%. But today those chances are 33% or so. (Read "25 People to Blame...
...Japan, too, numerous companies have publicly announced their intention to minimize layoffs, even as the economy's outlook gets uglier. Air-conditioner maker Daikin plans to reduce investment in new equipment and carmaker Mazda has implemented pay cuts to minimize layoffs. "We need to share the pain with all," Mazda CEO Takashi Yamanouchi recently told reporters...