Word: erraticism
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One of the world's most erratic and radical leaders, Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is being uncharacteristically reasonable these days.
The recent deluge is only the latest crisis in the Great Salt Lake's erratic history. Lying in the Great Basin between the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas, the lake collects runoff from the nearby Wasatch Range. Its only outlet is through evaporation, so the lake becomes 2 million tons...
Since Greek Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 65, came to power almost three years ago, his erratic and often acerbic pronouncements have exasperated his NATO allies. Washington, in particular, has grown increasingly irritated at what some officials regard as Papandreou's "anti-American, proSoviet, pro-terrorist" policies. Last week...
Perhaps the most important factor behind Caterpillar's troubles in foreign markets has been the overly strong dollar, because it makes the company's products more costly to foreign buyers. Since 1981, sales to Africa and the Middle East have fallen from $1.9 billion to $680 million. The...
The paper was ridiculed for some erratic early editing decisions: the first issue reported the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel on page 9, and another early issue headlined the "news" MEN, WOMEN: WE'RE STILL DIFFERENT. But USA Today has steadily become more conventionally informative. The 375...