Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...campaign launch in Auckland on Aug. 21. Economic output has grown by an average of 4% a year; the country's unemployment rate has dropped to 3.7%, the lowest in the developed world. Dairy, meat and horticultural export earnings have soared. House prices have boomed, encouraging property owners to borrow - to buy consumer goods or even bigger homes. Since 9/11, the isolated country has been seen as a safe haven; expats have returned home and the spectacular vistas of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings franchise have attracted tourists. Clark has worked relentlessly to rebrand the nation - to itself...
...Powered by two 60-horsepower outboard motors, their rigid-hull inflatable boat is the most valued piece of police equipment in these parts. Before ramsi, there was no police boat or vehicle, and local officers often had to borrow canoes or walk long distances to bring in a suspect or respond to a call for help. On a cloudy, humid afternoon, in Roviana lagoon, south of Munda, RSIP officer Ege Saro skippers the inflatable around shallow-lying coral reefs. Reaching open water, he pushes it to a zippy, if bumpy, 27 knots. After a 50-min. journey, the boat arrives...
Instead, Over There focuses, to borrow Donald Rumsfeld's phrase, on the narrow "soda straw" of the grunts' experience--a fog of war both physical and moral, with the only sure thing the desire to stay alive. The battle scenes may be the most visceral (literally) and gripping that series TV has ever done. As scary as the battle is the uncertainty. In one episode, the unit works at a checkpoint, unsure if they have killed good guys or bad guys even after they search the bullet-shattered cars. The show's power, of course, comes from knowing that these...
...meeting, Schurtenberger?presciently, as it turned out?questioned whether the company was prepared for what was likely to be a hostile U.S. political reaction to the deal. Henkes wondered about the debt load that CNOOC would have to take on to finance the transaction?the firm is seeking to borrow about $16 billion. He asked whether a partner might be brought in to absorb some of the risk. (This was something Haier, a large Chinese appliance company, did, by turning to a U.S. private-equity firm as its partner in making a bid for Maytag last month...
...Democratic proposal, the College Opportunity for All Act 2005—cosponsored by Reps. George Miller, D-Calif., and Dale Kildee, D-Mich.—would allow students to lock in loans at a fixed percentage when interests rates are low or borrow at a variable rate capped at 6.8 percent during periods of higher interest...