Word: banners
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...Forbes list, between a Swiss oil tycoon and an American heir to the Campbell Soup fortune. And unlike many of his fellow billionaires who've already lost untold fortunes to the global downturn, Guzman's empire likely made even more money in 2008 - a banner year for cocaine trafficking. (See pictures of the U.S.-Mexico border fence...
...World Bank said it first: in 2009, the global economy will contract for the first time since World War II. That's the banner headline of the international financial group's March 9 report, but, particularly for developing countries, the devil runs rampant through the details. (Really, when a report is titled "Swimming Against the Tide," you know there's not much good news forthcoming.) The World Bank paints a downright dismal picture of the growth prospects for developing countries, which are just now beginning to feel the full repercussions of the credit crisis that started in the United States...
...copies a day on average, down 21,500 from the same period in 2007. Daily readership of the newspaper alone has dropped by close to half since 1997. Two years ago, in what seems a surprising lack of team spirit, the VG Nett folks strung a triumphal banner across their offices when online readership surpassed print readership: "Storre enn mor!" (Bigger than...
Bush, George W. • investigation of in connection with wiretapping, politicizing of the Justice Department, and, of course, torture, is fervently desired by the two-thirds of the population less willing than Obama to let bygones be bygones • South African TV station erroneously runs moving banner headline reporting the death...
...support for his stimulus package (tentatively titled H.R. God, I Hope This Works) the rapture surrounding his anointment as Savior of America has been tempered by the emergence of a far less attractive mantra than Hope: Responsibility.That Pepsi has attempted to tie itself in recent months to the banner ideals of the former-Senator’s campaign, then, is both entirely logical and slightly confusing. While for decades the brand has touted itself as the “alternative” soda, the beverage of choice for whatever letter generation the day’s youth happens to have...