Word: homely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...damage from the flying public staying at home has claimed another large victim - Boeing (BA), which only a year ago had business prospects that it would have been proud to set side-by-side with those of any other large American company. Boeing was an $87 stock last May. It trades for $39 today...
...great banking crisis of 2008 is over. It began last September 15 when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and bottomed when Citigroup (C) traded below $1 last month. Most analysts believe that mortgage-backed securities which included packages of subprime home loans failed when mortgage default rates went up and housing prices raced down. That is only partially true. Banks made a tremendous series of ill-advised loans to private equity firms, hedge funds, commercial real estate holders, and the average man with a credit card balance which he cannot pay. (See pictures of the top 10 scared traders...
...offset some of their carbon emissions by paying tropical nations to preserve their forests. Although the idea is a controversial one - Greenpeace released a report in Bonn claiming that avoided deforestation would essentially let rich nations use it as an excuse not to make costlier emission reductions at home - a broad coalition of countries at Bonn demanded that avoided deforestation be put high on the negotiating agenda in the lead-up to Copenhagen. "They stood up and said, 'We want this,' " says Annie Petsonk, international counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund. "That's quite significant...
...Other nations, however, need to believe that the U.S. negotiating team can deliver on Obama's promises at home - otherwise we'll just keeping running around in circles...
...psyche has probably always been just as obsessed with violence as today, viewers before the Vietnam era wouldn’t be able to get their fix of it from film and television then like they can now. When people saw the violence in Vietnam and the caskets coming home, the response was both shock and anger; it was these feelings that culminated in the peace movement that has been so emblemized in American history. What has changed since then?Everything. 24/7 news stations, the internet, satellite communications, digital photography, and a film and TV rating system that goes from...