Word: beaver
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...weather derivatives, broadband capacity and anything else that could be turned into a commodity. The strategy spawned explosive growth. By 2000, Enron was the seventh largest company in America. The '90s were fat times for Enron, and the corporate culture oozed in excess. The company rented ski condos in Beaver Creek, Colo., and stocked each with a personal chef. Christmas parties were multimillion-dollar, black-tie affairs with ice sculptures...
a.k.a. /dcn, Deez C. Nutz, that big guy from news, mutant beaver Neil O. Dershovitz
...editors, though, are wimps. They were afraid that my pursuit of historical accuracy--killing a buffalo with a black-powder musket, for instance--would upset you. They were also concerned about the law, in terms of eating animals like grizzly bear, beaver, horse and whale. Worst of all, they certainly weren't going to let me eat dog. The Corps of Discovery reached the Upper Columbia during the run of the fall Chinook and coho salmon. But instead of eating the fish, they bought the local tribes' dogs for butchering. Bill Yallup Jr., a descendant of Lewis and Clark...
Unsuccessful and woefully beaver-less, the MIT students forged a plan to reclaim...
After word of Harvard’s theft spread around MIT, and the group was charged $650 by the costume rental agency for the missing beaver paw, MIT assembled an attack team...