Word: flush
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...Flush with profits from huge oil and gas reserves, sovereign wealth funds like Mubadala have been on quite a spree of late, particularly in the U.S. Eager to reduce Abu Dhabi's economic dependence on energy, Mubadala has bought stakes in chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices and private equity giant the Carlyle Group; another sovereign wealth fund, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, paid $7.5 billion to become Citigroup's largest shareholder; and this month the Abu Dhabi Investment Council offered $800 million for a 90% stake in Manhattan's iconic Chrysler Building, pictured above...
...first flush of success, Twain began work on a travel book, The Innocents Abroad, that would bring him sizable amounts of money. In that book he simultaneously took on the pretensions of Europe and the spectacle of a bunch of comical American tourists, including himself, making a sustained encounter with an Old World that was never quite as impressive as it was supposed...
Times weren't always so flush in Toontown. In 1997, "George Clooney killed comic-book movies," says Millar. Joel Schumacher's joyless Batman & Robin, in which Clooney legendarily donned a bat suit complete with rubber nipples, left fans feeling abused. Studios turned their attention to fantasy literature like Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. But when Spider-Man bested two wizard movies and a Star Wars prequel in 2002 and X-2: X-Men United broke $200 million at the box office in 2003, hand-drawn heroes swung back into favor. The joke in Hollywood now is that...
...years for the system to produce enough young players to reverse what he calls the "horrendous football losses of the perestroika period and of the early 1990s," when the old Soviet sports structures collapsed and young people abandoned the game in droves. But with Russia's corporations and businessmen flush with cash, there's a chance to build something again. And even if the Russians don't make much of a splash at Euro 2008, there is another prize in their sights: officials are already talking about a bid to host the 2018 World...
...Fund-Global. That's not to say it's lacking in clout. With assets of $382 billion at the end of March, it's the world's second-largest sovereign wealth fund, trailing only the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which weighs in at about $875 billion. Norway's fund, flush with money from the nation's oil and gas, has stakes in 7,000 firms - from Google to Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Post to PetroChina. Astonishingly, the fund now owns about 1% of the entire European stock market, and close to 0.5% globally...