Word: dying
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...longer the credit markets remain dry, the more things are going to die. That's what's behind yet another day of bloodshed on Wall Street, where the market lost 678 points, or 7.33%, in panicky late trading on Thursday. It's also what's behind yet another financial jack-in-the-box move by Henry Paulson at Treasury, who hinted on Wednesday that he was considering using part of the massive $700 billion bailout package approved by Congress to directly buy stakes in banks - after having dismissed the idea less than a week before...
Treasury already has a list of troubled banks, and as the regulator, it knows the banks' financial positions on a daily basis. No doubt these will be among the first volunteers. There is also no doubt that some banks are going to die anyway...
...dinosaur question seems to be a viral email with preposterous fake quotes attributed to Sarah Palin that stated that “God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago” as “lizards of Satan” with the manifest destiny that they would die and become “petroleum products.” Bloggers and pundits quickly picked up on this and continued the buzz. The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, in a September 9 column asked, “Does she really think Adams, Eve, Satan, and the dinosaurs mingled...
...which we ganked our fan club’s namesake. Yes, those crazies down in Cameron Indoor (aka, Cameron Crazies, get it?) were the staple for loud, obnoxious, and also, yes, creative college fandom in the mid-80s and 90s. I’ll give two examples. As a die-hard UVA fan, I hate do this, but I’m Crimson now, and drastic times call for some measures that may also be drastic: North Carolina’s standout guard of the mid-80s, Steve Hale, punctured his lung the game before facing rival Duke. While sitting...
...suicide, Kevorkian, a former pathologist, served in prison for eight years before being released on parole in 2007. Kevorkian said he uses the 9th Amendment, which addresses civil rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution, as the basis for his belief in a patient’s right to die. Last week, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made a dismissive remark about the 9th Amendment when taking questions from the audience during a lecture at the Law School. But Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz, who introduced Kevorkian, argued that the 9th Amendment is an important component of the Bill...