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  • These fools we have here who set up all these giant merged corporations in the 1980's are now themselves being consumed by what they wrought, unfortunately we are caught up in the malestrom.

    The real road to serfdom 2009

  • Lou Antonelli's point seems to have been lost in the malestrom here.

    GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap 2009

  • Too often in the malestrom of civilization we make the mistake of making life artificial and shutting out the real life all around us.

    Fog this morning 2008

  • Take Back the Land, a grassroots movement spawned in the midst of Florida's foreclosure malestrom, is gearing up for a national month of direct actions designed to thwart foreclosures.

    Michelle Chen: Foreclosure Signs and Unemployment Lines Reveal Roots of Housing Crisis 2010

  • Strieber is an admitted hostage of his alien abduction ideas and that is what conversely acts to throw this book into a malestrom from being lucid and clear one moment to opaque and a little intoxicated the next.

    REVIEW: 2012: The War for Souls by Whitley Strieber 2007

  • No sooner had Thailand's billionaire prime minister announced that he was to make $2 billion by selling his family's stake in a cell phone company, then Thaksin Shinawatra found himself embroiled in a political malestrom.

    Thai PM's Family Admit Errors In $2B Deal 2006

  • The world is a malestrom spinning around my head, diving into me painfully.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Maya Chalee 2005

  • The world is a malestrom spinning around my head, diving into me painfully.

    Thoughts Maya Chalee 2005

  • Gorth was charging into the main-deck malestrom, cutting, hacking, when a knife ripped into his side and he gasped and fell.

    Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

  • I'll be going right into the heart of the malestrom, giving a talk next week at King's, entitled

    k-punk mark 2010

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