Word: gem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seems bad timing, then, for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange to be launching the country's first Nasdaq-style board in October. After dithering for nine years, mainland regulators finally approved the bourse's proposal for a Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), which aims to help technology and other innovation-oriented start-ups get off the ground. Of the 150 companies that have applied to launch initial public offerings, 22 have won approval. Last week, the first batch of 10 enterprises in electronics, software, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology started accepting subscriptions from domestic investors (foreigners are excluded). (See pictures of China's infrastructure...
...been steadily rising over the past 15 years since he quit his job as a probation officer and became a full-time poet. His output is marked by an impressive versatility; he has written for radio and TV, produced song lyrics for award-winning musical documentaries, and translated a gem of the medieval literary canon, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” into modern English verse. Primarily, though, he is a lyric poet, specializing in “lively, mysterious, revelatory” poems, according to English Professor James Simpson, who introduced Armitage...
...Whatever disease “The Office” has, it’s terminal. By all accounts, “The Office” should not have succeeded in the first place. Channel 4’s “Peep Show,” a dark, quirky gem of a single-camera comedy, was remade for Fox in 2005—the same year that the first season of the “The Office” aired stateside—and was never commissioned beyond the pilot. More recently, a U.S. version of “Kath...
...quick master class from an MTV exec, Paul DeGooyer, and four Beatle stand-ins, who directed us to "gems" cascading down the screen. The color of the gem tells you which fret to hit on your guitar. "If you don't hit it," DeGooyer explained, "you'll hear some dissonance or you won't hear anything at all." (It's a very forgiving game.) (See the top 10 fake bands...
...industry veterans and a sister-in-law duo are leading the charge for gem-encrusted cuff bracelets?fall's polished rejoinder to last year's boho bangles. French designer Dominique Aurientis, who first gained attention in the '80s for her bold bracelets, has relaunched a collection of signature designs in materials like wood and gold plate. After years of styling celebrities in Harry Winston gems, Carol Brodie just introduced her own line of ridiculously well-priced jewels, Rarities, sold on HSN. And Radhika and Gauri Tandon channel their Indian and Art Nouveau inspirations into vibrant resin cuffs with inlaid stones...