• In Ghana, a spider called Myrmarachne foenisex is an excellent mimic of the red weaver ant, a vicious creature with a nasty sting.

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  • Turley says he was once in the training room after a game with a young linebacker who had suffered a vicious hit on a kickoff return.

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  • Still, the fact that these industry giants retained the highest rating calmed investors, who had worried that downgrades could trigger a vicious cycle, a fore-selling of bonds, leading to more losses for the big banks and increased credit costs for consumers, city government and others.

    NPR: Stocks Climb as Ambac, MBIA Keep Ratings

  • Indonesia faces, in a particularly vicious form, a downward spiral seen in Thailand and, to a lesser extent, Malaysia.

    ECONOMIST: The hopes for recovery fade

  • It is more of a last resort and often found to cause a vicious circle instead of a long-term improved competitive position.

    FORBES: Is There Hope For Employment In Europe?

  • Of course, these social phenomena are both symptoms of and contributors to economic circumstances, a vicious cycle that requires a structural solution at the policy level.

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  • Once people lose faith in a system, a vicious cycle, like a bank run, propagates through, like a virus through arteries and veins, which will put it on its knees.

    FORBES: Roubini Warns Of Euro Break Up As Greek Credit Rating Tumbles

  • The story begins in 1994, when the Malaysian press revealed that then Malacca chief minister Rahim Tamby Chik apparently had been led astray by a 15-year-old schoolgirl. (The accused's rivals in the dominant national party UMNO leaked the tawdry details.) Rahim was subjected to a vicious character assassination by a wide spectrum of society, including his party colleagues and the government-controlled media.

    CNN: Truth and Consequence

  • The process creates a vicious cycle in which each time a person goes on a diet like McCotry's, she'll have to further lower her caloric intake in order to drop weight.

    CNN: The #NYFW diet: Part of the job?

  • The scheme had been launched to help young people trapped in a vicious circle where they could not get a job because they did not have any experience on their CVs, he said.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • The situation could be a vicious circle for the Soviet Union if a disappearance of loans deprives it of the foreign currency needed for imports, which are needed to keep the economy running and creditworthy.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Banks In US Shun A Loan To Moscow

  • "We are in a vicious cycle, " said Evans Revere, a former senior State Department official who now works on Asia issues at the Brookings Institution.

    WSJ: U.S. Warns North Korea With Stealth Bomber Flights

  • The home collapse gathered momentum when Darren Stevens, soon after being hit on the glove by a vicious Kruger lifter, ran himself out attempting a suicidal single to Jamie Dalrymple at mid-on.

    BBC: Kent rescued by teenage rampage

  • McGUFFIN: The Lord's Resistance Army is a vicious, cultlike organization led by Joseph Kony, a man who believes he is host to the Holy Spirit.

    NPR: Child Soldiers Fight Forgotten War in Uganda

  • Stockmarket analysts took this as a rebuttal of a vicious article in February in the Bungei Shunju, a monthly Japanese magazine, which pointed to various problems with Hikari Tsushin's sales targets.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese high-tech

  • Broad was bowling with great venom and accuracy, and Fidel Edwards lasted just three balls before splicing a vicious throat ball to Tim Bresnan, who took a good catch in the gully.

    BBC: England seal emphatic Lord's win

  • Right now, our economy is trapped in a vicious cycle: The turmoil on Wall Street means a new round of belt-tightening for families and businesses on Main Street--and as folks produce less and consume less, that just deepens the problems in our financial markets.

    FORBES: Text Of Obama's Economic Team Announcement

  • The most visible narrative is the one recorded on cell phone videos and broadcast daily showing a vicious, autocratic state using superior weaponry to gun down a determined and popular opposition.

    CNN: After the fall of the House of Assad, could Syria be worse?

  • When any member of EVAC is hit by a novel virus, either a completely new one or a vicious variant of an old one, they pass on a warning which is distributed to all members of the network.

    BBC: Watching the web for viruses

  • It is a vicious cycle in which many are trapped: security is a prerequisite for development and development is a preventative for insecurity, yet these states lack the basic means to pay for the security that would facilitate the stability and economic growth that would, in turn, generate the revenues for the governments.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A stimulus for African security

  • The change comes in the wake of a vicious public relations battle between Apple and Adobe, creator of a widely used technology called Flash that manages video and animations on many websites.

    WSJ: Apple Blinks in Apps Fight

  • Prosecutor Elwen Evans QC said what followed was a "brutal and vicious assault" on a sleeping, defenceless 15-year-old boy, who bled to death.

    BBC: Man murdered his sleeping stepson

  • Grusha then undergoes a perilous journey to evade vicious soldiers, becoming a loving mother during a few difficult, impoverished years in exile.

    WSJ: Review: 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' jabs at injustice

  • Employers' problems feed, in a vicious cycle, the urban problems--like regional and racial divisions, lousy city schools and a poorly prepared work force--that seem to afflict St.

    FORBES: Yes, there is a pulse

  • And even as we confront a vicious adversary that abides by no rules, I believe that the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war.

    CNN: Obama: 'Peace requires responsibility'

  • Gupta and Lal are just two of thousands of victims of a new and vicious crime wave that has cast a pall of fear over Bombay, India's commercial and cultural center and a city that has always thrived on boisterous ostentation.

    CNN: TRAPPED IN THE BIG SQUEEZE

  • Executives in Round Rock boast about holding the operating margin almost constant amid a vicious price war.

    FORBES: Pulled in a New Direction

  • New batsman Bell was greeted with a vicious bouncer that he did well to avoid.

    BBC: Taylor roars back to tame Lions

  • If Mr Allawi follows this lead, Iraq could end up in a vicious circle.

    ECONOMIST: Is a partial election really better than none?

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