Word: goldings
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...characters, time to let the knotty situations grow more enticingly tangled, time to enjoy a laugh if any of them are on offer. The constant hammering and yammering of this movie drives you out of involvement with its women. And then there's that perfume girl - so obviously a gold-digger, so entirely without redeeming traits. It's hard to believe that any sensible man, let alone a master of the Wall Street universe, would take such a creature out for a drink, let alone marry her, even back in 1936. She was a vulgar cliché when she rolled...
Dave Morrison sits on top of an estimated $800 million in gold but can't get his hands on any of it. The 42-year-old Australian engineer went to the tropical island of Sulawesi in Indonesia's east five years ago to open a gold mine on a palm-studded hillock outside the provincial capital, Manado. He has yet to overturn one shovel of ore. A half-built processing plant sits idly alongside a dirt track. Among the only signs of activity to be spotted are in the picturesque bay nearby, where fishermen paddle wooden canoes. The mine...
...Indonesia's failure to launch can be seen as all the more frustrating because the country appears to be missing out on an epic global commodities boom. The archipelago of 17,500 islands is rich in natural gas, copper, coal, gold and other sought-after resources. Yet while some sectors, like palm oil, have seen exports surge, others have stagnated despite soaring commodity prices. A dearth of investment combined with aging fields has reduced the country's once formidable oil industry to near insignificance. Production has plummeted by one third in the past eight years. There may be undiscovered...
...Crimson’s first match of the year, the 49ers controlled the tempo and overpowered Harvard, a team that started playing together just two weeks ago. The Crimson managed to stay even with Long Beach State for much of the first half, but eventually the 49ers struck gold. The opponents found the back of the net twice in the last five minutes of the half. “After the first goal, we just lost focused,” Rhodes said. “That’s something we’ll learn from.” With...
...Coming in the afterglow of last month's Beijing Olympics, the Sept. 7 legislative election was widely forecast to be a rout of the democrats by Hong Kong's pro-Beijing parties. Only a week before voters went to the polls, China?s gold medalists made a triumphal tour of the city - a move some saw as an attempt to drum up support for pro-Beijing politicians. Hong Kong's government denied the athletes' visit was connected to the election. But pro-Beijing candidates couldn't help but benefit from association with the victorious Olympians. "China is rising in international...