Word: upsetness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...your favorite athlete outside of basketball? I'm going to have to go with Tiger Woods because he's so dominant right now. His father passed away, and he's very sad and upset, and he's playing angry. He's killing everyone. Destroying them. It's all over. He's sort of like me. When I get mad, there's nothing anyone can do. Nothing...
...benefits for low-paid workers, would cost more than €35 billion, according to the Institut de l'Entreprise, a pro-business think tank. There wasn't a word about how any of it would be financed. The left is even more fractious but, barring a huge last-minute upset, Ségolène Royal will be anointed the Socialist Party's candidate later this month. She has handled the media and her opponents brilliantly, but she remains a puzzle. Her advisers say they are trying to position her as the Tony Blair of France, as the person...
...ransom and let you go,'" Waddah says. A common persuasion technique employed by kidnappers is to call the family of the victim and let them hear him screaming during torture. That usually gets the family's attention and makes them more likely to pay a ransom quickly. It upset the captors' plans, says the U.S. official, that Waddah's family didn't own a phone. "Kidnappers tend to be simpleminded people," the official says. "They have a fixed plan, and when something unexpected happens, they don't know how to deal with...
While the decisions by the MBTA and MTA were not made in coordination, both of them are destined to upset the motorist-T-passenger balance for the worse. The state of travel in Massachusetts is an increasingly sad affair, and if poor choices like these continue to abound, public faith in the MBTA and MTA will erode even further...
...difficult, says Robert Gellman, a Washington-based privacy consultant, because "with most privacy suits it's hard to prove you were actually damaged if you didn't lose your job or if it [the violation] didn't cost you money. It's not enough to show you were upset." Currently, the Federal Trade Commission has authority to bring suits, but they can only issue injunctions to stop the behavior and sue for illegitimate profits. There's also ambiguity as to whether individuals or phone companies own personal records, so individuals may have a hard time demonstrating standing to bring...