Word: deadly
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...August (Queen Latifah), who runs the bee farm, is the matriarch of the clan, beaming wisdom and common sense to a child voracious for any human touch. May (Brit actress Sophie Okonedo) has long been in mourning for her dead twin sister April. Her emotions are deep and constantly near the surface; she is given to weeping and keening when she sees the pain of others. June (Alicia Keys), a teacher, is the no-nonsense one. With her high forehead, Afro coiffure and commanding hauteur, she is a preview of militant black women like Kathleen Cleaver and Angela Davis...
...good, because roads and bridges with little competition should produce a steady return via tolls for generations. But with asset prices falling and easy debt a thing of the past, some believe the Macquarie model is in for a shakeup. JP Morgan's Brian Johnson says it is "likely dead...
...analyst with stockbroker WiseOwl.com. "Now that the storms have come, they can't help but watch their house subside into the ocean." And Macquarie? More diverse sources of revenue mean "it's better built to weather the storm," Morris says. But the borrow-to-buy infrastructure model "is dead in the water...
...says it's got the message that it needs to change, but it doesn't agree the Mac model is dead. It is sacking a quarter of its 1,600 staff and selling off assets like Spanish wind farms and a Tasmanian power station. New CEO Michael Larkin says deals will be curtailed and executive pay based solidly on "investment outcomes." It remains to be seen if those remedies have come in time to save the patient...
...advantage, which in past elections translated into big, double-digit winning margins, has vaporized. The latest poll, released Sept. 18 by Democratic challenger Suzanne Kosmas, a well-financed, term-limited state legislator and businesswoman from New Smyrna Beach, showed Feeney only one percentage point ahead of Kosmas, a statistical dead heat. For the first time, Feeney lost the endorsement of his hometown newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel, which noted on October 12 that Feeney's power has waned, his "hard-right ideology" [on issues like immigration reform, energy policy and the bailout bill, which he voted against twice] would make...