Word: vente
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...varying size and intensity have brought hundreds of thousands into the streets--some driven as much by disgruntlement as by religious fervor, but many others motivated by genuine outrage at the perceived desecration of the most revered figure in Islam. Yet even for Westerners sympathetic to Muslims' right to vent their anger, the mayhem that marked the protests last week was as unsettling as the cartoons themselves. A day after mobs in Damascus torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies, rioters set fire to the Danish consulate in Beirut; Iranians hurled gasoline bombs at Denmark's embassy in Tehran and smashed...
That makes shoppers perhaps the perfect fodder for America's newest form of back talk: blogs. Once limited to the occasional coffee-break rant with their colleagues, salespeople are turning to the Web to vent about and occasionally mock the bizarre customer encounters that make working in retail so, um, interesting. "One day a male client called and asked that I bring over some foot-cream samples," writes Birdie Jaworski, an Avon lady, in her blog, Beauty Dish. "He not only wanted to try them on my feet, but then he wouldn...
Professors who have scored poorly on official student evaluations and informal rating websites now have a way to vent their frustrations with undergraduates...
...VACUUMS It's a ball, it's a chair, it's Airpouf ! This home appliance doubles as a piece of furniture, with holes for a draft tube, start button and air vent. On its DC15 Animal vacuum with the Ball, Dyson swapped rear wheels for a motorized ball to keep the center of gravity near the floor and suck up pet hair with a twist of the wrist?no more push and pull. Finally, German manufacturer Sebo's Felix Fun in retro orange and purple was designed flat to the floor for maneuverability...
...came out of last week's atrocities, it was the outrage with which Jordanians responded--the latest sign that al-Zarqawi's murderous tactics may be forcing Muslims to confront the threat he poses to their societies. In the days after the bombings, thousands took to the streets to vent their anger--a relatively rare spectacle in the Islamic world since Sept. 11, 2001. BURN IN HELL ABU MOUSAB AL-ZARQAWI read a typical poster. On Thursday even al-Zarqawi's sister-in-law was distressed by the attacks. "What I saw on TV yesterday did not please...