Word: dipped
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...lethal combination of mismanagement, overexpansion and economic gloom is driving the boom in retail liquidations. During better days, a company could file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the banks would finance its operations until the shops could restructure. These so-called debtor-in-possession, or DIP, loans kept the company operating. In the early 1990s, for example, Macy's spent nearly two years in Chapter 11. Today, banks aren't keen to lend to anyone, least of all a retailer in miserable shape. (See the worst business deals...
...letter that Apple's iconic executive, Steve Jobs, released Monday to quell concerns about his ailing health and increasingly frail frame - which recently caused a dip in Apple stock - had reporters across the country scrambling for answers. What condition could cause the "hormone imbalance that has been robbing [him] of the proteins [his] body needs to be healthy" and result in such dramatic weight loss? And in what scenario would that condition entail a "nutritional problem" whose cure is "relatively simple and straightforward...
Since 1903, the Coney Island Polar Bear Club has staged a New Year's Day plunge into the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. This year, nearly 700 men, women and children are expected to enjoy a chilly dip with as many as 3,000 less courageous souls watching from the shore. (The club's more dedicated members meet each Sunday during the winter to enjoy a cold swim.) TIME spoke with the club's president, Dennis Thomas, about how the group got its start, the psychology behind cold-water swimming and why 65° weather in January sucks...
President-elect Barack Obama has repeatedly said the Iraqi government must dip deeper into its own coffers to finance the country's reconstruction projects. To date, American taxpayers have shelled out some $50 billion, according to the most recent quarterly U.S. congressional report. The Iraqi government has matched that. Still, the reconstruction of Iraq is not simply a question of who foots the bill or which companies get the contracts. Iraq's rebuilding efforts are being hamstrung by sclerotic administrative procedures that are in desperate need of modernization, after decades of inefficient centralized control, corruption, cronyism, wars and sanctions...
Kahn said that she may dip into some discretionary funds as a short-term solution to continue the research...