"The Sopranos," HBO's hit series about a New Jersey crime family, will begin its second season today, and from billboards and bus stops all across the city Livia Soprano, the passive-aggressive materfamilias, stares out at us like the spokesperson for some hostile search engine.
The "mix", even when it happened, was a mix of the mutually hostile – search for the Greenwich Millennium Village online, to find a host of complaints by rich residents at the fact that sundry "chavs" and "scum" have ended up residing in their stunning luxury living solution.
The seethe dizzies us, also (two billion people were alive when I was born), though we're acculturated to extraordinary amounts of disorientation — the steely shriek of wheels underground, hostile searches at airports, changing lanes in heavy traffic at a mile a minute, sudden bureaucratic notifications — without blowing a fuse.
Led by retirees, people have also been abandoning habitats of colder, more hostile terrain in search of temperate climate and year-round gardening, making this valley one of the fastest-growing areas in the West.
Jude Law goes for broke as the recently redundant skipper who agrees to pilot a rust-bucket Soviet sub into hostile waters in search of a Nazi U-boat laden with treasure.
In fact, the crowd of detractors who see Google as the Mountain View monster is only growing: Last month, Privacy International placed Google dead last in its evaluation of Internet service companies in terms of consumer data protection, labeling the search giant "hostile to privacy".
Reactions were mixed: laughter, hostile glares, and the occasional searching glance at the paper's cover (which was dominated, unhelpfully, by a photo from Kashmir).
In March, NBC News reported on this spike in searches at the border, noting that CBP was primarily targeting Muslims — including U.S. citizens — and that phone searches frequently accompanied hostile interrogations of travelers.
He wants measures to protect French firms from hostile takeovers and to penalise relocation in search of lower costs.
Rio Tinto is reportedly gearing up to defend itself from a hostile takeover, instructing its advisers to search for other potential buyers.
The mission of the cruisers was to make sure that no mines had been laid in the bay and to search for and oppose any hostile warships.
