Word: bonanzas
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...save the planet," Clinton told the crowd of 5,000. "You are dangerously dependent on unstable sources of oil, and your air is too polluted." Silicon Valley bigwigs, including Google founder Larry Page and venture capitalists John Doerr and Vinod Khosla - wagering that clean tech will be the next bonanza - have also ponied up several million in favor of the initiative...
...Producing local versions of popular American shows with local casts all over the world, known in the industry as "reversioning", could be a bonanza for studios, which count on sales to international markets to recoup the high cost of producing episodic television at home. In the 1990s Sony Television International pioneered reversioning with local productions of hits such as Married With Children and The Nanny as a way to counter a trend of scheduling U.S. shows in undesirable time slots far away from primetime. Today, Sony is expanding its productions throughout the world in markets as culturally different as Russia...
...Capella Jam. Crimson Key set up a white screen, and freshmen willing to forego shame and shake their respective groove thangs competed for one of those shiny pieces of electric goodness in a dance-off. Samir J. Paul ’10, a participant in the booty-shaking bonanza, explains why he was willing to put his money maker on the line for an iPod. “The iPod has a cultural cachet that few other MP3 players can even dream of competing with,” he says. And thus the tiny music player lured...
...unfortunate coincidence that what is thought to be the world's richest trove of prehistoric rock art, an island-dotted precinct covering a 45-km radius, is also one of the hubs of Australia's resources bonanza. Liquefied-natural-gas tankers and ships loaded with iron ore leave from here on timetables set by China's seemingly endless demand. Doubling back to Karratha...
Nonetheless, more Arab businesses are breaking out of the bazaar, using know-how gained from negotiating the Middle East or simply leveraging the financial power provided by the current oil-revenue bonanza to conquer markets far from home. Whether they sell traditional carpets and inlaid furniture or deal in mega real estate developments and cell-phone services, Arabs are moving their wares across the Middle East and throughout the world. "There is no escaping it," says Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohammed Rachid, a former Unilever executive and a leading Arab voice for globalization. "We have to make...