Word: happening
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...Vail in a foot of fresh powder, you can understand Thain's thinking: Let's see, I can ski in perfect conditions in one of the most beautiful places in America or I can stay in New York City and face all the nastiness that's going to happen whether I'm there or not. Thain got on the plane...
Gramm, who before he got into politics was an economics professor at Texas A&M, took to the task with relish. He was dismissive of the charge that Glass-Steagall repeal has been a big problem. "Europe never had Glass-Steagall," he said. "So why didn't this happen in Europe rather than here?" On derivatives he was a bit more nuanced: All he and the Clinton Administration were trying to do with the 2000 bill, he claimed, was establish that interest-rate and currency swaps - two relatively uncontroversial forms of over-the-counter derivatives - couldn't be regulated...
...terrible as it may seem, what management can say about what has just happened to their companies financially and what management says about what is about to happen, is hardly any guideline...
...live - where there is no rain to clear it out. It would be blown across the globe and block the sun. The effect would not be a nuclear winter, but it would be colder than the little ice age [in the 17th and 18th centuries] and the change would happen very rapidly - over the course of a few weeks...
...sung some of those songs thousands of times. Every single, solitary night, they are all brand-new to me, every time. I've never gotten to the point where I say, Oh, I gotta hurry up and sing this because I'm bored with this song. It don't happen like that...