Word: broking
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...France plane plummeted into an uncommanded dive while traveling through a downdraft generated by storms - a common occurrence over the region of the Atlantic Ocean where the plane went down - it could have been doomed as it entered a steep dive and likely broke...
...Magna as an innovative company that put forward the best plan to secure the long-term future of Opel. At the carmaker's headquarters in the town of Rüsselsheim near Frankfurt, workers were hugging friends and colleagues outside the factory on Saturday when news of the deal broke. Many were surprised the German government finally stepped in to save the traditional carmaker Opel in the nick of time, just before its parent company, the U.S. car giant, GM, went under...
Several networks, betting that viewers want to give the Great Recession a big, cathartic bear hug, have announced new shows about the little guy struggling and the big guy brought low. On ABC's Hank, a CEO gets downsized; on Fox's Brothers, an NFL star goes broke; and on the same network's Sons of Tucson, a banker goes to jail for corporate crimes. (In Hollywood, they call that wish fulfillment.) The reality-show premises are even starker: "desperate" entrepreneurs plead for financing on ABC's Shark Tank; on Fox's Somebody's Gotta Go, employees of an actual...
...tanklike drive, has actually strengthened the OAS's influence since being elected secretary-general in 2005 - the first winning candidate, in fact, who wasn't regarded as "Washington's man." Last year, for example, he played a key role in quieting war drums in the Andes when a crisis broke out among Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela over leftist guerrillas and territorial sovereignty. But he also took heat last fall for what critics called an all too OAS-like soft response to credible charges of widespread, government-orchestrated vote fraud that erupted after elections in Nicaragua. As a result, how Insulza...
...year, for example, it was also the weekend of my 21st birthday. As soon as I stepped foot off the bus on Friday night until getting back on said bus Saturday eve, I was never a sober boy. In the process, I urinated (twice) on the statue of Eli, broke a bathroom stall door, stole a Yalie’s hat and rubbed it on my butt, and repeatedly yelled, “I am the destroyer of Yale! Bow down before me!” Why in the world did this happen? In my heart of hearts, I know...