Word: ariel
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...float sold short, which is equivalent to six trading days of volume based on the current daily average. As concerns about the fate of the newspaper industry mounted, Gannett's shares plunged from over $9 in mid-January to $1.85 in mid-March. Two weeks ago, Ariel Investments announced that it had increased its investment in Gannett from 4.8% of the company to 12.5%. That puzzled Wall St because of the bleak future the industry faces. The news about Ariel caused the stock to rally from $2.69 to $4.06 in four days, which probably pushed a number of short sellers...
Change is long overdue. "Who can possibly justify the fact that Belgium has a substantially larger quota than India, Brazil or Mexico?" asks Ariel Buira, of the Mexican Council for International Affairs. The IMF's legions of critics even include other international agencies. Malcolm Knight, a former general manager of the Bank for International Settlements - a sort of club for central bankers - recently blasted the IMF in an article that described its performance as "less than evenhanded or effective," and accused it of being asleep at the wheel in the months before the current economic turmoil. "The IMF was uncharacteristically...
...According to Argentine campaigner Ariel Bellino, a former Catholic: "The church counts all those who've been baptized as Catholic and lobbies for legislation based on that number, so we're trying to convey the importance of people expressing they no longer belong to the church." Campaigners say that's particularly important in Argentina, where liberal social values frequently clash with Roman Catholic doctrine related to issues such as birth control, abstinence before marriage and homosexuality; in 2003, Buenos Aries became the first city in South America to legalize gay civil unions...
Merkin operated several funds, including Ascot Fund, Gabriel Capital Corp. and Ariel Fund, totaling $2.4 billion, that fed into Bernard L. Madoff Securities LLC, the so-called investment firm run by Madoff. In total, Merkin is charged with 720 breaches of fiduciary duty in raising, through social and charitable connections, over $4 billion, which he turned over to third-party money managers, like Madoff...
Perhaps it's a cold truth, but sometimes death burnishes an author's reputation. It was only after she committed suicide that Sylvia Plath's most affecting, well-known works came out, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems. John Kennedy Toole's Southern gothic tragicomedy A Confederacy of Dunces was unpublished and gathering dust until Toole's mother put it in the hands of Walker Percy years after her son's suicide. The 2008 publication in English of Stieg Larsson's critically acclaimed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo came four years after he passed...