Word: albatross
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...downstairs to investigate, she realized it was merely the initiation rituals of the Sabliere society, an all-female social group started by several Crimson editors, among others, during the great “female social club” wave of the early millennium. Unfortunately, said society must bear the albatross of the greatest social deadweight this side of feminism: association with The Harvard Crimson. History is truly oppressive...
...Bird Race, a 10,000-kilometer competition for seabirds flying from New Zealand to South Africa; by APHRODITE, an albatross sponsored by Jerry Hall, former model and ex-wife of rock star Mick Jagger; at the Cape of Good Hope. The race follows the migratory route of the Tasmanian Shy albatross. Second place went to Xanadu, sponsored by Nicholas Coleridge, a descendent of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
...representative in Baghdad, declined Blair's request to extend his stay. It's a serious political risk for Blair to pledge more British lives in the cause of the Atlantic alliance when ambassadors and generals, to say nothing of polls, remind him his closeness to Bush is a political albatross. But Blair continues to believe that retaining private influence with Bush simply demands the discipline of no public criticism, even if he looks weak as a result. "If he were now to suggest the slightest rift with the White House, the story would be monumental," says a former senior diplomat...
George Bush and his G.O.P. allies in Congress thought the Medicare prescription-drug benefit they enacted last December would take a key issue away from the Democrats and entice millions of seniors to vote Republican this November. Instead, the legislation is fast becoming "an albatross around our necks," a G.O.P. Congressman tells TIME. "It's not playing very well with seniors." Surveys indicate that the elderly are confused about the complicated prescription-drug benefits--which don't fully kick in until 2006--in the nearly 700-page law and are skeptical that drug costs will be lowered. Now questions about...
That was certainly evident 15 months ago when Roberts bought AT&T's cable assets for $51 billion and promptly turned them from an albatross into a moneymaker. He recaptured or replaced subscribers lost under AT&T management in 2002, boosted operating cash flow and upgraded the systems to make high-definition television available to more than 80% of subscribers ahead of schedule. With $18.3 billion in revenues in 2003, Comcast bills 21.5 million cable subscribers each month (out of 40 million potential customers in the areas it services) and, after unloading its stake in the QVC home-shopping network...