Word: blooded
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...Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood: "This is the most haunting film I have seen as I close the writing of this book, and I take it not just as vindication of the career of a man like Paul Thomas Anderson (now clearly the leader of his generation), but a sign that will and luck coexist still in America to make a resonant film about everything. Just as with Citizen Kane-or Greed or Magnolia or Chinatown-this could have been called "American...
...This is the kind of climate that favors established leaders, who have got not only the capital to survive the long haul, but also real, revenue-generating business models in place. Look for a blood bath as big tech companies try to consolidate their positions in the coming months. Apple is rumored to be launching an $800 laptop, moving into a lower price range that makes it even more competitive with PC makers such as HP and Dell. In online retail, Amazon would love to put a stake in the heart of eBay this holiday season...
Despite those big stakes, the government is not interested in running the banks; its shares, the Treasury made clear Monday, would eventually be sold off "in an orderly way." But with voters baying for the blood of Britain's bankers, the government was careful to secure concessions in return for taxpayers' money. There'll be no cash bonuses for execs of the three institutions this year (though their annual salaries, all upwards of $1.5 million, will remain intact). Future remuneration will be more closely tied to the banks' long-term performance. Government-appointed directors will join the lenders' boards...
Over the decades, the firm has survived its share of crises, including the Long-Term Capital Management hedge-fund blowup in 1998 that cost Goldman $1 billion. But the lessons learned and applied may be why the company isn't neck-deep in blood today. As ambitious as its cutthroat competitors, Goldman didn't go completely mad during the past decade when it came to, say, overleveraging itself or overvaluing dicey assets...
...guarding the Faina must calculate whether such a raid, which would put the lives of the 20 hostages aboard the ship at risk, is worth a potential catastrophe. "If they attack us, we will defend ourselves and the situation will worsen. We will fight until only a drop of blood is left in our bodies," Sugule Ali, the pirate spokesman, tells TIME from the deck of the Faina. "We believe that humans die once. They have weapons, and we also have weapons...