Word: herding
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...houses, farms and schools has been transformed into a sump filled with fetid water. Groves of orange trees lie half submerged near Triumph. In Empire, almost 1 million gallons of oil have broken out of a giant Chevron storage tank, coating the levees and seeping into the marshland. A herd of cows staggers ankle deep through greasy waters in Venice. A few miles north, horses graze amid dead fish and the hulks of beached shrimp trawlers...
These days, as usual, Wadhwaney thinks the herd is heading in the wrong direction. For example, although he grew up in Bombay, the center of India's boom, his fund doesn't own a single Indian stock. "People are paying ridiculous prices on promises of the future," he says. Nobody can reliably predict which way the stock market will move or what a company's earnings will be, he argues, so the key is to focus on the present. That means appraising a company's existing assets and buying the stock only if those assets are grossly undervalued. Typically...
...know what the milk will be like after this." A SPOKESWOMAN for the Russian Federal Drugs Control Service, on its gift of 40 tons of confiscated marijuana to a herd of hungry cows after their normal feed crops were destroyed by agents looking for drugs Sources: Los Angeles Times; New York Times; A.P.; Financial Times; Washington Post; Reuters
...moans of—er—pleasure are certain to turn to groans of a different kind when the comedy takes a hard right turn into romantic comedy cheese. As Wilson and his movie love interest bicycle down a hill into a herd of grazing goats, any veteran of “Dodgeball” or “Zoolander” would bet on an awesome crash into some very disgruntled animals. Sadly, only some girls may be left in “awwwww” as the precious little creatures trot away...
...Ramirez, a former telephone worker in the mountain city of Manizales, where an international team of volcanologists have gathered to study Nevado del Ruiz. The scientists were far from reassuring. "This volcano is potentially at the beginning of activity that could last weeks, months and years," said Darrell G. Herd of the U.S. Geological Survey. For now, the survivors of the volcanic holocaust face a new life of trembling uncertainty. --By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Bernard Diederich/Armero and Tom Quinn/Bogot...