Word: caving
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...guess I?m spending it. But on what? This, my fellow Americans, is the business world?s version of an election. As corporate America contemplates emerging from its dark cave of pain this fall and winter, these tax checks will help determine which sectors get ahead and which pass into post-bubble history...
...this ruling, President Bush, who expressed skepticism about the case during the presidential campaign, might back away from this Clinton-era holdover. But that will be harder to do now that a Republican-majority court has attested that Microsoft broke the law. And even if the Bush Administration does cave, that won't end the case. Nineteen state attorneys general are part of the lawsuit, which would proceed as long as they continued to press their claims...
...long shot runs deep. The newspapers are rife with stories of benevolent ghosts who solve financial and familial problems. And last April, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was duped into thinking he could wipe out the national debt by unearthing lost World War II treasure in a muddy cave near the Burmese border. So who can blame Thailand's 700,000 AIDS patients for putting their faith in such cures as bitter melon extract (at one point certified by government officials), magic herbs and an elixir called Love Dharma, concocted from sticky rice and herbs...
...some of Huizenga's negotiating ploys that "disgusted" Redstone. One was the "belly drop." On the verge of an agreement, Redstone asserts, Huizenga would make a late request that was so outrageous you'd get queasy. His hope was that the other side, already tasting the deal, would simply cave...
...thin dawn light, Cohen raced to a nearby cave once home to an old hermit. Inside, the sight was indescribable. A rock the size of a computer rested on Kobi's smashed skull. Both bodies were covered with stones. Blood smeared the walls, and the dirt floor was muddy with it. When the searchers rolled the rocks away, they didn't see faces but unrecognizable pulp. "I had only one thought," Cohen says, standing in the cave two days later. "To get my hands on the killers...