Word: upsetingly
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Several plays and 91 yards later, Holt dived into the endzone, completing an improbable upset of the heavily-favored Bulldogs...
...Lowell, I spent a term at the Claverly Senior House, into whose small courtyard on Saturday nights spilled revelers from the Pudding. They upset one roommate who used the dark space to watch the stars through a telescope whose lens he had ground himself. Another roommate invented and built a portable podium for the Glee Club...
...been more sensitive to the complexities and issues, I would have found a way to handle the announcement about the purchase of the land in Allston [revealed in 1997]. I think that was not something I did well, and I think it upset a lot of people, made them wary...Most of the land had been purchased already by the time I came, but how to make it public and explain--it was something that should have taken a lot more time, and I simply misjudged that...
With its vast scale, China can upset the global trading rules and security understandings that underwrite the current Western-led system. China's problems with economy, energy and the environment will be the world's problems, because if they are not taken care of, terrible consequences will spill across the map far from China. Perversely, the gap in material wealth and military technology separating China from the West is actually a source of leverage for Beijing. In the West the gap makes China look weak. But the gap actually makes China strong. China has the advantage--the underdog's advantage...
...rich and innovative country. China is unlikely to displace the U.S. by 2025. But by changing what it means to be a superpower, Beijing undermines the one country that now holds the title. China can upset the global order without deliberately trying to do so and can check U.S. influence in parts of Asia where we have been for 50 years. One thing can be said for sure: the costs of staying a superpower for the U.S. are about to go up, sharply...