Word: affronted
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...described as psychotic, with a fetish for smiley faces and the color yellow. But Silverman is not her usual offensive self, at least not in an obvious way, which is actually very refreshing. It’s nice to know that she can actually act, and not just affront people with a straight face...
...Klein needs to get out more. The failure to preserve the public option is an affront not to the left but to the base. Progressives are not demanding that everything be thrown out. Keep the regulations and break up insurance monopolies. Move the financial aspects of the bill to reconciliation, and institute Medicare for all with a 51-vote majority. That is a rational response. Virginia Velez Bainbridge Island, Wash...
Klein needs to get out more. The failure to preserve the public option is an affront not to the left but to the base. Progressives are not demanding that everything be thrown out. Keep the regulations and break up insurance monopolies. Move the financial aspects of the bill to reconciliation, and institute Medicare for all with a 51-vote majority. That is a rational response...
...past year. But the proposed cuts - about a third of which would be in Belgium - follow the company's announcement of profits of $1.55 billion in the third quarter of last year. This has angered the Belgian unions, which are taking a stand against what they see as an affront to the country's beer-making tradition. "This is the ugly face of capitalism," says Roger Van Vlasselaer, who heads the Flemish Brabant section of the ABVV-FGTB, Belgium's main union. "AB InBev are just thinking of their bottom line for shareholders, regardless of the social cost. There...
...passengers the option of walking through a body scanner instead of undergoing a physical pat-down search. But in 2008, when the European Commission suggested devising regulations on the use of scanners in the E.U., European Parliament members voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution calling the machines an affront to passengers' rights. The Commission has since launched a study on whether the scanners violate people's privacy, but the results have yet to be released...