Word: busting
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...Discover I can sign for packages and open the ones from DHL (but not UPS). I can meet with an editor to discuss ideas, using for emphasis Zorba the Greek dance (works well) and Andy Samberg impression (not so much). Interviewing's a bust: subject asks if I'm vacuuming...
...former President Kennedy’s “New Frontier” inaugural address, a clip of which began the ceremony. He spoke about his parents’ devotion to teaching him about “great men and women,” which included keeping a bust of President Kennedy in their house. “I would be sitting there eating my eggs in the morning, looking up, and seeing John F. Kennedy for the first 18 years of my life,” said Booker, who has served as Newark’s mayor since...
...deterioration of the global economy in the wake of the ongoing U.S. housing bust and subsequent credit crunch is accelerating at a frightening pace. In the U.S., nothing captures the concussive force of the downturn better than the Consumer Price Index released Wednesday, which showed prices falling 1% in October after being flat in September. Suddenly, the prospect of outright deflation in the U.S. - and all the risks that entails - is a clear and present danger. "With the unemployment lines growing ever longer, there is a genuine risk that the U.S. economy could fall into a corrosive deflationary phase," says...
...result - a deflationary bust - is evident everywhere. On Thursday morning crude-oil prices - as good a barometer as any for global economic activity - plunged below $50 a barrel. In July crude peaked...
...change in the board and the current management. They are diligent. They worked very hard, but it just hasn't worked." In Schrager's view, GM is a strategic failure. It can manufacture high-quality cars, but it neither makes the right kind nor markets them effectively. He'd bust the company up into three independent firms: Chevy, Buick-Pontiac-GMC and Cadillac-Saab-Saturn...