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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...financial institution Kaupthing and food company Bakkavör. It's not just the springs that are hot in Iceland, it seems. - By Peter Gumbel Stirring Up The Risk Pool Triathletes are usually known for taking a risk or two. After all, swimming, biking and running - with hardly a breather in between - doesn't come without potential danger. So why will more than 100 of these risk takers in next week's VisitScotland Adventure-Tri be insured for $1.75 million? Because swimmers in the race will be paddling two circuits of Scotland's Urquhart Bay, home of the fabled Loch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...breather was granted to the Black and White the following week in the form of Syracuse and Dartmouth. Radcliffe raced to first in every varsity competition by sizeable open-water margins at Onondaga Lake in upstate New York...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Women's Heavyweight Crew | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

Prior to the past few weeks, there was much talk that the conclave that replaced John Paul might discount relatively youthful papabili like Schönborn, 60, and Rodríguez Maradiaga, 62. Reason: after John Paul's multidecade marathon, the electors would, as McBrien puts it, "be looking for a breather" and would try to avoid the possibility of another long-term Pontiff. There was much discussion of an older, interim figure, a caretaker who by definition would have to worry less about living up to John Paul's gargantuan legacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What The New Job Specs Are | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

Less than four months after George W. Bush’s victory over John F. Kerry, I thought I could take a breather from the insanity of elections. But there was the overstuffed envelope in my mailbox—my absentee ballot. Apparently I had overlooked local elections, and for some unknown and likely unintelligible reason, Los Angeles is having its mayoral election today. While my ignorance may not be surprising given that I am 3,000 miles from home, among my fellow Los Angelinos, I am unfortunately not alone...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, | Title: Election Redux | 3/8/2005 | See Source »

...postwar order among these groups has been fragile - they fought themselves to exhaustion, and then under Syria's heavy hand took a breather and found ways to coexist. But the final shape of the Lebanese political order has never been concluded, a proper dialogue among Lebanon's diverse factions prevented, over the years, by perennial crises in the form of the civil war, the Israeli invasion and the Syrian occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Syria Feels the Heat from a Beirut Bombing | 2/15/2005 | See Source »

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