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...Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” she gave an emphatic yes. “A researcher and I were the first people to be hired for the movie, before there was even an official ‘Pirates’ bank account,” Gary says. “It was really cool to be working that early when there really was nobody else. We had the first outlines, came up with the first conceptual ideas, and so I was able to see it from the very, very beginning...
Friction between patients and their nurses may also account for the impulse to escape: the helpless elderly see the nursing staff as bored and grudging; though many nurses are heroically selfless, some think of themselves as stuck at the bottom of their profession. "Nurses who work in nursing homes traditionally have been stigmatized by their professional peers," says H. Terri Brower, a professor of nursing at the University of Miami's School of Nursing. Says Ruth Tappen, another professor at the school: "Nurses are not interested in working in nursing homes. They don't want to go near the places...
...central bank could do to stoke an economy's fires once it had lowered rates to zero. But Fukui stepped up or initiated a series of unorthodox "quantitative easing" programs designed to flood the market with easy money. For example, he more than doubled the target for current-account deposits held by financial institutions and he ramped up the BOJ's purchases of corporate and government bonds. With increased deposits, banks had more money to put on the street; and the BOJ's shopping spree also put more money in circulation...
...calling in support from helicopter gunships. Israeli officials say their soldier was killed by a Palestinian sniper, while the Palestinian fatalities came from missile and artillery fire in northern Gaza, and also in the southern town of Khan Yunis, according to witnesses, hospital officials the Israeli military's own account. By nightfall, the Israelis had pushed several miles into Gaza, toward the main cities in the north, and taken over more houses for use as outposts...
While this will be its first trip to the U.S., Tesco travels pretty well. Since the mid-'90s, it has opened more than 800 overseas stores, almost all in Central Europe and Asia, and they now account for more than a fifth of Tesco's total sales. International sales soared 23% in the past fiscal year, more than twice the rate of sales growth in Britain, lifting Tesco's profits 17%, to $4 billion...