Coupland is one of nature's dyed-in-the-wool solipsists, and he's much happier with his characters the same way, cut loose and spinning in the breeze, where they can give voice to his own highly discursive urges: "John wondered why it is people lose the ability to make friends somewhere around the time they buy their first expensive piece of furniture".
Attorneys for News Corporation called the allegations raised by the BBC documentary, which aired Monday in Britain, "serious, defamatory, false and highly damaging" and urged British newspapers not to repeat the allegations.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called North Korea's announcement "highly provocative" and urged the country to abide by its international obligations.
If you haven't yet viewed Ernst and Young's starkly brilliant countdown to gender parity urging business to "fast forward", I highly recommend it.
He wrote a book on "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families", which urged them to set mission statements and hold regular meetings to discuss progress.
Current demand for novel highly sustainable concrete urges improving the links between chemical and mechanical effects of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) on the microstructure of blended-cement pastes.
So it is highly likely that these officials urged Mr Hunt's political advisers to be cautious about the takeover too.
Highly educated women are being urged to date and marry "down," given the dearth of equally educated men.
Australians are being urged not to use highly addictive benzodiazepines, or benzos, such as Valium to relieve back pain.
Saul Bellow, who had urged his brilliant and highly idiosyncratic friend to write the book in the first place, wrote the introduction.
Leaders of the European Union who had been highly critical of Israel's Gaza policy urged the Libyan boat's crew not to try to enter Gaza.
