Word: appealling
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...appeal, of course, can be intense. Blue-chip private equity firm the Blackstone Group, which sold 12% of itself to the public on June 22, has returned an annualized 30% over the past 20 years to the pension funds, endowments and high net-worth individuals invested in its flagship private equity portfolio. On the first day of trading, Blackstone's public shares surged...
...April, the country had become so swamped with cocaine that radio journalists in Bissau broadcast an appeal for villagers to phone in with details of mysterious activities. Locals near the airfield of Cufar quickly called on their mobile phones to describe major drug drops. Crucially, they exposed the military's deep involvement in the trafficking. "People called and said: 'Here is a plane landing, now they are offloading packets, now the military is coming, the military is loading it and driving toward Bissau,'" a local journalist told...
Still, Garibaldi was a truly international figure during his lifetime, traveling widely and feted by the wealthy and well-connected. Historian Rohan McWilliam says he was a favorite of a radical salon crowd in Victorian England for his mix of egalitarianism, insurgent tactics and rugged sex appeal - a forerunner of Argentine Marxist Che Guevara. Though T shirts may be rare, after his death Garibaldi's name would adorn monuments, towns and mountain ranges from Rome to Russia, Canada to Brazil...
...candidacy of Feingold, so they therefore past constitutional muster. (Wisconsin Right to Life won't use the old ads, obviously, but at least now it knows what it can say in new ones.) It's only when an ad is "susceptible of no reasonable interpretation other than as an appeal to vote for or against a specific candidate" that McCain-Feingold kicks in, Roberts says...
...school principal was not amused, and when Frederick refused to take the banner down, she suspended him for 10 days. Frederick sued the principal and school for violation of his free speech and won in the lower federal courts, but the Supreme Court accepted the case on appeal...