Word: hoarding
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...others that if mixed together might create something deadlier still. Enough to kill 4.2 million people, guessed one newspaper; another topped it with an estimate of 10 million. Japanese television viewers watched, mesmerized, as the police stormed the redoubts of the sect, looking for evidence that might link the hoard to 10 horrible deaths that had already occurred...
...this decision was only one of three recent measures designed to hoard students' money. Last spring, the council passed a measure to eliminate the check-box option on term bills, forcing students to write a personal letter to the dean to beg for their own money back. And this spring, the council passed another measure to overturn a previous decision of giving house committees all unspent monies at year...
...merger also gave Redstone extra cash, which he had been desperately seeking, to use in the battle for control of Paramount. Reinforced by Blockbuster's huge cash hoard and rock-solid balance sheets, he immediately upped his offer for Paramount by $1.2 billion. "It may not be the knockout blow," said an obviously pleased Redstone, "but from our standpoint it is an extremely dramatic coup." Both Redstone and Huizenga insisted that the merger had been in the works for months and would go forward whether or not the company gained control of Paramount...
...American businesses are reaping. For three decades after World War II, higher American wages followed closely upon improvements in productivity. That stalled when companies grew bloated in the 1970s and early '80s. After the widespread layoffs that ensued, labor found itself in a weakened position, which allowed employers to hoard the new gains as productivity turned back...
...people. Though this impression is a mistaken one, China has managed to defuse the issue of national identity--all of its provinces are controlled by Beijing as anonymous entities. In contrast, the Soviet Union was perpetually weakened by its scores of `secondary' nationalities and the republics' tendencies to hoard their own resources...