Word: grosse
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...charm offensive directed at ratings agencies and investors. Iceland is the fifth richest country in the oecd; the prices of its largest exports, aluminum and fish, are at record highs. "The Icelanders are richer than us," says British economist Portes. "They're not exactly going to starve." (Iceland's gross national income per capita is $39,400, compared to the U.K.'s $35,300.) What's more, the banks remain fundamentally sound: they have strong deposit ratios and are more profitable than their Nordic peers. First-quarter results suggest the financial climate has started to warm: the three largest banks...
...question of more than regional interest. The U.S. has been on a three-decade binge during which imports have far exceeded exports, with the trade deficit peaking at $758 billion, or 5.7% of gross domestic product (GDP), in 2006. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing has been endlessly debated, with no clear resolution. But it does seem to be an unsustainable thing. The U.S. finances its deficit with money borrowed from abroad. At some point, those foreign lenders will want to be paid back. While there are several ways to go about this--inflating...
Indy films usually begin with a bang and end in scenes of gross-out mysticism, but the coolest thing here comes in the middle: a high-speed two-vehicle battle between Indy's team and Irina's goons that's up there with the Raiders Jeep sequence; it's certainly more complex and audacious in its engineering of physical action. In his press conference at Cannes, Spielberg said, "I believe in practical magic, not digital magic," and in "real stunts with real people." These stunts are real good...
...remember that in an earlier age people were busy doing other things. Now we realize that we can make money from the creative side as well. KHOO: But it's still difficult. Look at South Korea - they've got a population of 40 million and their films can domestically gross $80 million. That's huge. With our films, we try hard to make sure they make a bit of money, and we have been very fortunate in that the last couple of films have traveled outside of Singapore. The last film I directed, Be With Me, showed for a year...
...meantime, hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were unnecessarily spent, and worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily wounded, maimed, and killed as a result. In my mind, this action by the Bush administration amounts to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty. From the book Wiser in Battle. Copyright ? 2008 by Ricardo S. Sanchez. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers...