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...that went off at Madrid gas stations on Dec. 3, and seven more devices that exploded almost simultaneously in towns strung north to south across Spain on Dec. 6. Is ETA preparing to lay down its arms or gearing up for another round of attacks? ETA has been largely dormant outside the Basque Country since March 11, when Islamic radicals set off bombs on four Madrid-bound commuter trains, killing 191 and injuring thousands. The organization has also been gutted by more than 200 arrests over the past two years, including that of presumed leader Mikel "Antza" Albizu in France...
...management company’s trading floor, a methodical array of flat-panel monitors and mini televisions tuned to CNBC, is largely dormant on typical trading days. Though the firm is responsible for roughly 250,000 transactions a year, according to Meyer, work on the floor is conducted in library voices—even whispers, when a reporter is present—a far cry from the popular image of frantic traders hollering orders and scrambling for phones...
...plans to replace their wooden boats with fiberglass ones or expand the business into wholesaling are on ice. Loea used to work as a supervisor at the Gold Ridge gold mine, which closed down in 2000. One of ramsi's economic priorities is to revive the lucrative mine; another dormant project, a palm oil plantation, is closer to reality after a deal with a Papua New Guinean company. So tiny are the country's export industries that even these two mid-sized ventures will make a huge difference...
...tries and fails to assassinate an ambitious Corleone street soldier named Nick Geraci, who then becomes his rival and nemesis. As plots go, it's a little thin, and Winegardner doesn't have much of a feel for Michael. Al Pacino played him as a tragic Mafia genius, a dormant volcano of repressed emotion, but here he's just an icy, hypercompetent sociopath...
Personal savings accounts emerged as a Social Security component in academia as far back as the 1950s, but the idea remained dormant until the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan ignited a Republican revolution and the recently formed libertarian think tank the Cato Institute latched onto personal accounts as a free-market fix. Retirement savings, in the free marketeers' view, should be seen as dynamic investments rather than welfare-state safety nets. Indeed, the Cato economists and others concluded that Social Security just wasn't a good investment, based on what taxpayers put in and what they ultimately get out. The President...