Word: horizons
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...market turned against Colaninno in March, punishing the share prices of Olivetti and Telecom Italia, and causing some concern among Colaninno's investors, largely 175 businessmen from Mantua who had backed him in the hopes of a quick return on their money. No new investors were on the horizon, and a plan to raise $8 billion in cash through a conversion of savings shares to ordinary stock failed to materialize since Telecom's price on the Milan bourse lagged 20% below the target. To further Colaninno's woes, he was put under investigation by prosecutors in Turin for possible conflict...
...Luckily for Bush, several opportunities to visibly take on Big Business over the environment are on the horizon...
...desert here is monotonously flat, rising only for escarpments and ridges a couple of hundred meters high?ribs off the ancient, eroded spines of the MacDonnell and Davenport Ranges. From horizon to horizon there is nothing but red earth, squat, pale-green mulga trees and dense mallee shrubs. And when night falls, the darkness is almost palpable...
...home. A Gallup poll earned top headlines after finding 95% support for the bid among Beijing residents. But there's another explanation for such favorable results: heavy-handed propaganda. A similar poll showing 87% support outside Beijing went unreported because "it was deemed too low," says Victor Yuan of Horizon Research, which conducted the study. Ordinary Chinese will never read a quote saying the Games "will bring Beijing's corruption to the world's attention," as Zhao Hong, a teacher of Marxist philosophy in the distant city of Kunming, told TIME. And they don't know that a member...
...owners. Originally from Khon Kaen in the northeast, Weerayuth, 25, with a sixth-grade education, started selling insects when he came to Bangkok five years ago. He grosses about $1,000 a day, clears about $225, and says business is getting better every year. The only cloud on the horizon: Thailand is running out of bugs. A lot are being consumed, but most have fallen prey to rural overuse of insecticides. (That has caused an ecological imbalance: when the insect population dipped, so did that of birds and reptiles that feed on them. And as those are natural predators...