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...credit, though, is that easy money was one of the main reasons we wound up on the brink of economic calamity in the first place. Taken as a group, new businesses may be job creators, but any sort of average masks the fact that many young companies completely combust. Lending to them is risky, and while it may be desirable to lend more in an attempt to create jobs, there is a flip side to the coin. There is a reason banks right now are hesitating to lend too readily - they've recently learned a lesson about where that...
...that admiration comes at a price of an unflattering stereotype. Reactions vary when others find out Litt is in Math 55. Some immediately request homework help, he says. “Sometimes people just spontaneously combust, swoon, faint, turn bright red, start giggling...
...Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui are a perfect match: they act, they produce, and as a screenwriting team, they are French cinema's sharpest critics of the bourgeois élite, people whose relationships they portray as always on the brink of collapse and whose dinner parties combust into uncivil wars. Bacri and Jaoui have written six films together, but it was 2000's warm comedy Le Goût des Autres (The Taste of Others) - in which a disillusioned businessman falls for an actress and her bohemian lifestyle - that proved their breakout hit, winning four...
...look directly at them. Model-actress REBECCA ROMIJN-STAMOS, 31, and husband JOHN STAMOS, 40, General Hospital's former resident hunk, are so gorgeous, they may just burn your retinas. So it was perhaps inevitable that the couple would spontaneously combust. After more than five years of marriage, they announced their separation days before the release of her new film, The Punisher. The usual speculation arose that extramarital dalliances were involved. But Romijn-Stamos denied all rumors, saying the only affair she's had recently has been with her new puppy...
Keeping warm can be a primitive but pleasing science. In a fireplace you organize the logs in harmonious balance between wood and air--fuel for the flames to lick and curl about and combust, encouraged by just the right oxygen and draw. A good fire is self-consuming architecture...