Word: coast
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...manufacturers surveyed said they expect their profits to decline through the end of 2009. "The outlook," the Book notes, "is pessimistic." One Boston respondent told Fed officials that the economy's "bearish mood" has even spread to the higher-education sector. Staffing centers are gloomy on the East Coast; says one contact,"Everybody's spooked. There's no hiring going on at all." Even so, positions for engineers, programmers, health care personnel and IT professionals have remained difficult to fill. (In other words, go into those fields, people...
Five minutes into the second period, Lin followed up a lay-up by freshman Oliver McNally with a coast-to-coast layup of his own, keeping the deficit to single digits at 47-39. But on the ensuing possession, the Crimson turned the ball over—one of 20 on the night—which led to a BU jumper...
...elements of the government are inclined to extort a share of the ransom payments - tens of millions of dollars this year alone - whenever possible. The International Maritime Board's Piracy Reporting Center says 14 ships and between 250 and 300 crew members remain in captivity along the Somali coast...
...Saudi oil tanker Sirius Star some 450 nautical miles out at sea - well beyond the pirates' previous range. One of the men involved in that raid, 24-year-old Mohamed Dashishle described a distinctly low-tech operation, though organized by men he said had once trained in the Somali coast guard. One of the pirates' "mother ships" spotted the tanker and deployed three small skiffs to surround it. Dashishle told TIME that the pirates simply had to brandish their rocket-propelled grenade launchers to intimidate the tanker. They never even fired a shot or boarded the ship before...
...lights were already off, but the palpable smugness in the room and self-consciously appropriate laughter that followed suggested that the audience consisted of hipsters, socialites, Ivy grads and an assortment of other caricatures out of the East Coast intellectual elite. For a moment, I found it strange that representatives of the group supposedly ushering in the United States’ moral decay and loss of traditional values would come together to watch a movie about football, America’s rough and tumble answer to that wimpy game where scrawny European boys chase after each other in short-shorts...