Word: flooded
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...center his 2004 campaign on health-care issues, but the more he talked to Democratic voters in Iowa, the more he realized that their passions were being stirred by the Iraq war. Hammering home his opposition to the war turned Dean--briefly--into the front runner, bringing in a flood of contributions over the Internet...
...Oscars. With this morning's announcement of the nominations - which ignored Brad Pitt's work in Babel and Jack Nicholson's in The Departed, and gave Dreamgirls a leading eight nominations (three for original song!) but stiffed it in the writing, directing and picture categories - a six-week flood of hope and hype begins, culminating in Oscar Night on Feb. 25. Las Vegas has already established its betting line for major categories. Everyone else, thinking ahead about Oscar office pools, will start scanning websites for tips on films most people haven't seen and many never heard about. Hmmm, Best...
...flood of IPOs by Chinese companies, including some record-breaking deals, is a major reason for that performance. To tap overseas investors, China's best companies?from mobile-phone operators to insurance firms?have made Hong Kong's stock market their No. 1 choice for going public. Why? The imposition of onerous reporting requirements on companies listing in the U.S. in the wake of the Enron scandal has knocked some of the shine off New York, while Chinese bourses in Shanghai and Shenzhen are often considered to be too immature and restricted (foreigners are allowed to trade freely only...
...presence on the streets. The White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy estimates that opium production in Afghanistan, which not only provides 90% of the heroin consumed globally but also funds Taliban activities, rose 61% last year over 2005. Some 670 tons of heroin are expected to flood the market, and that should slash the street price of a kilo of Southwest Asian heroin, now about $90,000 in Los Angeles. Yet the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), which annually loses some 3% of its 5,000 agents to attrition, has a two-year hiring freeze because...
Inevitably, the flood of money has left some members of the art world in China unhappy. "Modern art in China has become a monster," says respected collector Guan Yi. "People's attention is no longer focused on the art itself but [on] what kind of return they will get on their investment, like the stock market...