Word: upsetness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Wolfowitz's allies say he is the victim of backlash from entrenched bank staff upset that he is turning up the heat on an anticorruption campaign begun by his predecessor, James Wolfensohn. That's probably overstating things. But the potential backlash against slashing the bank's staff and getting it out of lending would surely be epic. Which may explain why no World Bank president, Wolfowitz included, has attempted...
While the world can sympathize with the bereaved in the Virginia Tech killings, there seems little point in the American people getting too upset about them. Such killings are merely a form of blood tax that has to be paid for the imagined privilege of gun ownership...
Maybe I’m bitter because my cell phone plan only gives me something like 50 free texts per month, and I always go over my limit (sorry Mom). Maybe I’m upset because my finger reflexes are a bit slow, and I can’t churn out 160 characters in 42 seconds like the text-messaging record holder (it’s a real competition, look...
...maybe I’m upset because I actually like to talk to people, see their faces, look into their eyes, and hear their voices. I love to laugh, but humor is something that’s completely lost by way of the text message. I also like to say what I want without a machine trying to guess my next move (predictive text will baffle me to my grave...
...major disappointment of last week’s musical offerings. Many heads could roll when a collective effort like this goes awry, but the conductor, John Adams is the one who must stand in the dock.”“I remember being just shocked and upset,” Adams says of that concert and its reception. “It was the first time I ever got a real stinker.”However, the harsh words would prepare him for the world outside Harvard.Reviewing “Nixon in China” 20 years later...