Word: barings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thick golden light of a setting African sun, under the speckled shade of an acacia tree, three young lions are feasting on a baby giraffe. The hindquarters are gone; the chest is laid bare. Dry, snapping noises can be heard across the grasslands as the animals crack the ribs of their prey to get to the vital organs. Coolly, with utter confidence, a mature lioness--the oldest of the seven-member pride--approaches. A 3-year-old male tries to scare her off with a snarl, but she lunges at him, baring her teeth and biting at his neck. After...
...matronly woman with a warbling New England--inflected accent that Katharine Hepburn would have found snobby. And yet, even to my teenage brain, she was clearly a badass. She explained sides of beef by pointing to her own body. She tore at suckling-pig ribs with her giant bare hands. She never edited out any of her mistakes, showing you how to fix them, live with them or bluff. She dropped stuff on the floor, wiped it off and said, "Remember, you're all alone in the kitchen, and no one can see you." She was the Lee Marvin...
Late last night, a square in one of the city?s grittiest neighborhoods erupted in shouting and yelling. The noise reverberated throughout nearby streets, attracting curious or even some slightly frightened passersby. Scores of bare-chested men, swirling their shirts over their heads, were chanting ?Iraq! Iraq! Iraq...
...bare facts: Phyllis Adams Kirkland Jenkins was born into privilege on the East Side of Manhattan in 1923; came of age in a dazzling period for New York society; trod the boards as a young actress; reported on the Nuremberg trials of top Nazis; helped pioneer the daytime talk show; married a handsome actor and then an even handsomer designer of sets for stage and screen; gave unstintingly to Amnesty International and other worthy charities; left behind a loving, lovely family and a host of bereft friends...
...basically bisecting the market," says Matt Snowling, a brokerage analyst at investment firm Friedman Billings Ramsey. For folks with more than $150,000 to invest, firms like Merrill and Smith Barney offer comprehensive financial services. On the low end, bare-bones firms like ETrade and Ameritrade are happy with clients that do not expect advice and have only a few thousand dollars...