Word: hoardes
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...dollars from exports, China now buys more U.S. Treasuries than even the Japanese--$12.1 billion in U.S. notes and bonds through the first nine months of 1996,vs. the $11.6 billion Japan purchased. China owns more than $43 billion of U.S. Treasury debt, the world's fifth largest hoard, and moving...
...Britain and France froze the distribution of $68 million in gold bars they still hold from the Nazi hoard. It is the last portion of the spoils retrieved by the Allies after the war and was supposed to be parceled out to the remaining nations that claim it. Bronfman advised Clinton to suspend any action until the three Allies decide whether this gold--symbolically at least--was melted down from private Jewish assets rather than national treasuries and should be given to Holocaust victims...
...annual listing of the 400 richest Americans. Or so billionaire Ted Turner believes. Last summer he told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, "That list is destroying our country," claiming that the "ole skinflints" are so afraid of slipping down the Forbes list--"their Super Bowl"--that they hoard, rather than share, their wealth...
...spells trouble. If a sexually mature bonobo male shows a female unwanted attention, she has merely to sound a distress call to bring an avenging group of females quickly to the scene. Males that misbehave in a nonsexual setting--say, at a feeding site, where they may try to hoard a cache of fruit and prevent other troop members from approaching--are similarly intimidated or chased off. Even males that reserve their aggression solely for one another find their behavior utterly unrewarded. The whole purpose of such mano a mano combat is to secure breeding rights to females, but since...
...writing." Indeed, it seems that Neeson hasn't quite let go of Schindler's List, the making of which must have been a deeply emotional experience. Ever since the film's release, the actor has immersed himself almost obsessively in the history of the Holocaust. He keeps a hoard of related memoirs by his bedside but continues to comb bookshops for that "survivor's story I may have not read." He claims he needed to make Nell, the 1994 film in which he co-starred with Jodie Foster, "as a break from the deadlock of reading these stories...