Word: exitement
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...didn’t win an Ig Nobel prize tonight—and especially if you did—better luck next year,” said MC Marc Abrahams. Bewildered, FM couldn’t agree more as we quickly escaped through the nearest exit...
...Minding the gap isn't merely an academic exercise. Excess capacity directly affects the biggest question facing policymakers today: when to exit from stimulus programs that were introduced to combat the recession. Everyone agrees the cure for excess capacity is increasing demand, whether it is generated through a fundamentally strengthening economy or through artificial means like "Cash for Clunkers" measures. Turn off the tap too quickly before normal demand recovers, and the downturn could persist. "The best way of reducing excess capacity is by not prematurely unwinding stimulus spending," Lin of the World Bank told TIME...
...evasion case against Swiss banking giant UBS. The former UBS employee turned whistle-blower exposed the previously hidden world of offshore tax shelters, which cheats the Treasury out of about $100 billion a year. Thanks to his insider information, UBS was fined $780 million, and it promised to "exit entirely" from the U.S. tax-shelter business and to provide the names of thousands of American tax dodgers, from which hundreds of millions of dollars still might be collected. It also led to new tax treaties with the Swiss that should provide unprecedented tax information in civil cases and better access...
...Wichita tells Tallahassee, "I told you we should have gone to Russell Crowe's." Murray does materialize - playing a solitary star like Adam Sandler's Funny People character, but in a gentler reading - in a cameo that's wonderfully written and played and boasts one of the funniest exit lines in zombie-movie history. (See the top 25 horror movies of all time...
...high-level politicians by name, to see people who an hour earlier shared the stage with Maliki. "I know I'm an old woman, but I can't find anyone to help me. I came here because now I don't have a place to live." Dejected, the women exit into the hot and dusty parking lot. "I want our voice to be heard," Salman says. She and her fellow voters may get their wish - or revenge...