Word: hauntings
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...companies have been battered beyond recognition. What looked like safe stowaway spots where corporations securely tucked away assets for their employees' retirements now look like roller-coaster funds. In addition to sending shivers up the spines of employees who count on that income, the problem also threatens to haunt the bottom line at many major firms. Williams says some may be forced to consider mergers to accumulate bigger asset bases or may have to sell off strategic assets...
...They took it back to the '40s, where there wasn't any deep psychological exploration, just a slam-bang fun thing. There's this one villain called Lord Death Man, and his ability is basically to die. But much more importantly, he comes back to life and starts to haunt Batman's dreams. All kinds of wonderful weird things happen that don't get explained...
...industry, overtaking the traditional No. 1, textiles. Along with Renault, three other foreign giants - Fiat, Honda and Toyota - all have significant production facilities in the country. About 80% of output is exported, mainly to Europe, which until recently meant booming business. But as the specter of recession comes to haunt Germany, France and the rest of the Continent, automotive sales have been badly hit. In Turkey, that has resulted in a drop in production since June, after five years of continuous growth. "Foreign orders are drying up and there's nothing we can do about that," says Ercan Tezer, head...
...Still, the latest allegations against Kundera, which have spurred discussion across Europe, are a reminder of the moral ambiguities and compromises that haunt the generations that lived through World War II and the Cold War - exactly the stuff of the novels that made Kundera famous...
...recent months, Chicago has bathed in pride as the place Barack Obama calls home, in spite of the attendant scrutiny on people like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and Tony Rezko. But it is now particularly defensive, if not irate, about the latest local figure to haunt Obama's presidential candidacy: Bill Ayers...