Word: handedness
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In recent days, despite the regime's heavy-handed efforts to stifle the resistance, public demonstrations have become more decentralized and frequent as protesters become increasingly bold and defiant. This shift in mood - from despondency in late June after the Basij fired on protesters following the June 12 presidential election...
SENTENCED A Virginia judge handed U.S. national Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 28, a life sentence for a 2003 plot to assassinate then President George W. Bush.
Would this intervention be flawlessly executed? Of course not. But if ham-handed pay rules drive risky, highly rewarded activities out of big banks and into smaller firms - if big banks become boring again - that might not be all bad, since smaller firms presumably pose less risk to the financial...
As long as we're talking about ham-handed measures, we might also want to consider the most ham-handed pay regulation of all - progressive income taxes. It cannot be entirely coincidental that the great explosion in executive and Wall Street pay began about the same time that Washington was...
"I have to move somewhere with the freedom of speech to share my feelings with others," says the producer. He says that operating as an artist in Iran has become almost impossible because of the heavy-handed Internet filters that block the social-networking sites he relies on to market...