Word: generic
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...filing sold off. Notable new equity investments include $9.7 million worth of shares in Rupert Murdoch’s media giant News Corp.; $16 million in China Mobile, the world’s biggest wireless-phone carrier; $13 million in Teva Pharmaceutical, the world’s largest generic drug maker; and $3.5 million in Sprint Nextel Corp.The increasing emphasis on emerging market equity has likely helped hedge against dramatic declines in the domestic stock market. While the S&P 500 fell 12 percent from Dec. 31 to March 31, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index has remained essentially flat over...
...Indeed, the courts have already rejected a claim from the government that the photos' release should be barred because of the generic danger it would pose to U.S. troops. But by encouraging government lawyers to consider appealing the case to the Supreme Court, Obama can at least be seen as doing all he can to protect the troops serving under his command. That's critical, given the fact that U.S. troops are fighting Islamic militants in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has also made it clear that the worsening situation in Afghanistan requires delicate negotiations and cooperation with Muslim, and nuclear...
...Cheap Trick in part because the rest of the album fails to maintain the melodic quality of the first three songs. Power pop sans hooks is music that has entirely lost its raison d’être, and most of the album disappoints on this count, with generic, unmemorable riffs and bland choruses. But an even more egregious failure is the lyrical descent from enjoyable silliness to ponderous platitudes. Not only would such lines as “Without love you have nothing to shoot for” do James Blunt or Chris Martin proud, they are sung...
...sanity claws. Soon he's drawn back into the orbit of Stryker, whose plan is to pour adamantium into Logan's system, giving our boy the power to fight and destroy his murderous bro. "We're going to make you indestructible," Stryker says in one of his many generic Dr. Frankenstein lines. "But first we have to destroy you." And then they have to face him off against a newer, nastier mutant: Reynolds, now retooled into a true Frankenstein monster...
...governments respond to the emergency by instituting border controls and disrupting world trade. Not only would the global recession worsen - a 2008 World Bank report estimated that a severe pandemic could reduce the world's GDP by 4.8% - but we depend on international trade now for countless necessities, from generic medicines to surgical gloves. The just-in-time production systems embraced by companies like Wal-Mart - where inventories are kept as low as possible to cut waste and boost profit - mean that we don't have stockpiles of most things. Supply chains for food, medicines and even the coal that...