Word: waywardly
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...Zedong's communists chased Chiang Kai-shek's KMT from the mainland after a brutal civil war, and ever since the two have glared icily at each other across the narrow but heavily armed strait that separates them. Beijing considers Taiwan to be no more than a wayward province destined to be reunified under communist rule. The disagreement has on occasion inched close to war and remains one of Asia's potential flash points. Neither side formally recognizes the existence of the other, so nearly 60 years after their separation, Taiwan residents still cannot send a letter or take...
...many on Wall Street felt he went too far, pressuring ethically wayward but not necessarily criminal companies into agreeing to unfairly large settlements by threatening CEOs with prolonged legal battles. (Spitzer extracted at least $5 billion in penalties from financial firms, according to Masters.) In December 2005, former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead, who was then chairing the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., alleged that Spitzer tried to bully him after Whitehead wrote a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed criticizing the attorney general's zealotry: "I will be coming after you," Spitzer allegedly told Whitehead, who said he immediately took notes...
...Another miss by Penn, Bernardini with the wayward jumper. The Quakers are cold from the floor right now, but still down by only five. The Crimson, setting up on offense, Lin inbounds to Housman, back to Lin, Lin gets rejected but Unger picks up the trash and calmly puts it in the net. Harvard 12, Penn...
...Gunn bringing the ball down the court for the Crimson, Princeton rotating the ball around the perimeter nicely, Koncz pulls up for the three....and misses. Harvard with the ball, Harris backing his defender down, puts up a wayward shot but gets hacked on the wrist. Two from the charity strip. They can take the lead here with two successful free throws. Harris calmly makes both, Harvard regains the lead. [Harvard 26, Princeton...
...situation is simple for one so complicated. Kosovo, the wayward Serbian province that is 90 percent ethnic Albanian, will settle for nothing short of independence. Serbia refuses to entertain any possibility of that happening. Unsurprisingly, then, the two failed to reach any kind of understanding by Dec. 10, the deadline set by the United Nations for negotiations on Kosovo’s eventual status. With that deadline passed, Kosovo is widely expected to secede and become the world’s youngest country. But it is ignoring the consequences of a sudden divorce. As it stands, an independent Kosovo could...