Word: wrung
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...unifying emotion and tears of 9/11 to a much less galvanizing involvement in a “war based on lies.” The consequences are starkly depicted: a domestic tableau riven by a young veteran’s vacant manner and a society that’s wrung-out, disillusioned and distant. “Everyone I call up doesn’t have the time to chat,” Crow wearily relates. “Everyone is so busy doing this or doing that.”From that point forward, Crow delivers five successive tracks...
...Rising mainland prices should come as no surprise. For years, economists have wrung their hands over the prospect that China's economy might finally overheat. The latest inflation report signals that time may be at hand. China has recorded four straight years of double-digit economic growth, and 2007 will likely be the fifth: first-quarter GDP expanded by 11.1%. At a moment when the rest of the world fears roiling credit markets might reduce growth, China faces a different challenge: how to slow its economic locomotive before it jumps the tracks...
...Researchers have wrung other kinds of information out of cancer cells, including the way they spur the formation of blood vessels, which nourish their growth. Avastin, approved in 2004, is the first drug to throw a wrench into the process by suppressing a tumor's ability to recruit vascular growth factors. As with many of the newer therapies, doctors have found that it works best as part of a cocktail of cancer drugs...
...recent years. The answer today looks to be, as a group, large-capitalization U.S. stocks. The top 10 U.S. firms by market cap as of March 2000 have seen their stocks decline 27% on average through September 2006, while their combined net income has nearly doubled. The market has wrung out most of the 1990s excesses...
...actors--including his two big stars--are all wonderfully real, seemingly as surprised by the depths and dangers of their circumstances and emotions as we are. Babel is a movie that leaves you feeling limp and wrung out, but mysteriously moved by its vivid human encounters with the hot, tightly wired, chancy and coincidental world, ever capable of terrorizing us when we least expect...