Word: chunks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...year, ended March 2001, it posted record earnings of $3 billion. Last year DoCoMo overtook Toyota as Japan's biggest company, measured by market capitalization. When its share price peaked last spring, DoCoMo was the 11th-largest company in the world, with enough spare cash to buy a 16% chunk of AT&T Wireless, the third-largest mobile phone company...
...financial system if it takes forever. After a month of asking Enron executives what they knew and when they knew it - and getting more Fifth Amendment pleas than answers - Enron-obsessed lawmakers, particularly Democrats, are massing this week for an entire Enron-based 2002 legislative agenda. A chunk of the proceedings will be aimed at the big Wall Street firms (Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Alliance Capital) that helped Enron get where it was before it collapsed under its own debt...
...song with a definite groove begins to irk, and even the songs themselves seem to suffer from a lack of material. Not only is there song called “24 Hours,” but also “73 Hours,” which borrows a chunk of its melody from Enya’s easy-listening library, while much of the rest of the album steers rather close to Björk’s Vespertine. This is a brave attempt to follow in the footsteps of the masters, and although it never ceases to be beautiful...
Everyone has their own story about Suzanne M. Pomey ’02, the well-known Winthrop senior accused of stealing a hefty chunk of cash from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Mine concerns invisibility—specifically, my own. We had good friends in common, Suzanne and I, and so we saw each other at parties, in Winthrop suites, at bars, on the street. But we never spoke to one another, beyond the barest pleasantries. Or, more aptly, she never spoke...
...You’re in your underwear throughout a big chunk of the film. What was that like, having to wear nothing but underwear for twelve hours...