Word: haloing
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...There was one notable flameout: in 2003 Kerik went to Baghdad and Amman to help train Iraqi police but walked out on the job after only a few months. However, the Giuliani halo was still strong enough in late 2004 for George W. Bush to nominate Kerik as the replacement for departing Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. It had begun as Giuliani's idea, of course, and the White House glommed onto it quickly. At first, the pick seemed to confirm nothing so much as Giuliani's rising star in his party's heavens. But within a few days, problems...
...globalization aren't being fairly distributed, companies that appear sympathetic may gain a competitive edge. European and Japanese companies report that young graduates ask tough questions about a potential employer's social practices. And European firms, with their more developed commitment to social responsibility, Edelman argues, are developing a "halo effect" among consumers worldwide. For American firms competing globally, that's a reason to know what NGO stands...
...strike drags on, neither side may like the answer. The 1988 strike lasted five months, but TV didn't have to compete with the Internet or Netflix, and Tetris wasn't quite so involving as Halo 3. (Movies are less affected because they have a bigger backlog of scripts...
Every so often, though, one is nudged out of orbit by a chance encounter with some other object; it plunges in toward the sun, heats up and releases gases and dust that form a halo and stream away in a long, magnificent tail...
Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the small ones that usually doesn't put on much of a show - or hasn't since it was first discovered in 1892. A couple of weeks ago, however, this insignificant object formed a huge halo (officially known as a coma, from the Latin word for hair), which quickly swelled to the size of the planet Jupiter. And puny Holmes, a million times brighter than it had been a couple of hours before, suddenly became visible to the naked eye. And so it remains: You can see it yourself, without binoculars if you use this...