Word: bigs
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...their interest in popular music and expressing other fundamentalist views. On certain occasions, he replaced his Western clothing with a traditional tunic, and he let his whiskers grow. "Najib is completely different," a neighborhood man told Sherzad a few years ago. "He looks like a Taliban. He has a big beard. He's talking different...
...big target on his chest for the whole Merrill Lynch deal, and I can only imagine the emotional stress he's endured." - Alan Villalon, an analyst at First American Funds, after Lewis' announcement. (Associated Press, Sept...
Despite a ton of changes, the new Holiday Inn has met with mixed reaction from "seen this before" industry analysts, one even likening the refresh to rearranging the deck chairs on hospitality's Titanic. "They're too big a ship to steer a new course," he says dismissively. Less dramatically, the analysts think the Holiday Inn model, with a full restaurant dishing up three meals a day, is spent. Why would you want to eat at a Holiday Inn when you can hit a nearby Chili...
...since the days of President Daniel arap Moi, a classic African "Big Man," has the U.S. been so tough on Kenya. The latest salvo came on Sept. 24, when Washington threatened to ban 15 senior officials from the U.S. for their failure to push through reforms after bloody post-election violence in early 2008. Even worse for a cash-strapped Kenya, the U.S. promised to scrutinize the government's requests to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. This is not the close friendship that Kenya had in mind when Barack Obama, a man whose father was born...
...years to upgrade factories and strengthen distribution for a raft of new models. Even GM on Sept. 24 announced an unusual collaboration with Bangalore's Reva Electric Car, makers of the G-Wiz, to produce small, affordable electric vehicles for India. Mulally said recently that India would play a big role in accelerating Ford's presence in the Asia-Pacific region - but the company will have to fight off numerous competitors who are all driving toward the same destination...