Word: ardor
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Executives at Disney must know that its streak of luck with fresh faces can't last. For a start, there are not many genuine teen stars out there. Second, even tween girls - Disney Channel's main consumers - can generate ardor for only so many other humans. The company has recently made moves to find story lines and characters elsewhere, paying $4 billion to buy Marvel Entertainment merely to get access to some of its lesser superheroes. (The big ones, like Spider-Man, are already spoken for.) Comic-book characters can't give concerts or go to a meet-and-greet...
...desire to rekindle closer ties with their neighbors across the Rhine. Since the end of World War II the Franco-German relationship has been the motor of European integration, the driving force behind the creation of the European Union and, more recently, the introduction of the euro. But the ardor has cooled in this decade, particularly under Merkel, who has regularly struggled to conceal her irritation with French President Nicolas Sarkozy's grandstanding. Sarkozy, in turn, has often been impatient with what he considers Merkel's lack of resolve...
...baiting continued after the fall of the Soviet Union, albeit with its ardor considerably cooled. George H.W. Bush attacked Bill Clinton during the 1992 campaign for visiting Moscow as a student, and an old photo of John Kerry with the socialist President of Nicaragua haunted him in 2004. All of which means Obama might have to get used to this...
...star whose trademark stolidity is a suitable vessel for Father Hyun's stoic battle against the impulses that have invaded his system. But it's the lovely Kim, just 22, who is the revelation here. She can play - no, she can be - a creature of mute docility, then searching ardor, then explosive eroticism, then murderous intent. She is Lady Chatterley and Lady Macbeth in one smoldering package...
...Such examples of excessive investor ardor for new Chinese stocks aren't hard to find. Shares of Chinese water-treatment-equipment supplier Duoyuan Global Water soared 37% on June 24, its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Back in Hong Kong, Chinese thenardite producer Lumena Resources (thenardite is a key ingredient in powder detergents, textiles, glass, chemical feedstock and pharmaceuticals) rang up 19% in gains on June 17. On June 22, the IPO of China Metal Recycling closed 22% higher. (See pictures of China's infrastructure boom...