Word: huges
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...would not be willing to sell. Hedgers, afraid of soaring prices, would buy oil futures, driving the price to unheard-of levels. Worse still, we would have to worry about the oil suppliers themselves getting in on the futures-price action. They can afford to take on huge risks in the oil-futures market because they make such large profits by comparison...
Floridians are generally not flummoxed by the variety of reptile species that invade their state. Even when pythons started turning up on the peninsula in large numbers a few years ago, most residents laughed off the huge, not-native snakes as yet another imported nuisance, little worse than some condo developers...
...willing, in the next five years, the world will say, 'Indonesia is something, Indonesia is rising.' " - Speaking at a huge election rally in Jakarta (New York Times, July...
...good reason: Stern Hu and his deputies were in charge of Rio Tinto's negotiations over the price of iron ore with Chinese steelmakers. China is now the word's largest consumer of iron ore, and Rio its largest supplier - shoveling vast amounts of high-quality ore from its huge mines in western Australia. The price negotiations were ongoing at the time of Hu's arrest, and are hugely sensitive in China. Indeed, TIME has learned that on the Chinese side, they were effectively being run out of the office of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, though representatives of China...
...offered Rio late last year, when prices for the commodities it mines had hit rock bottom as the global recession took hold. Since then, prices for iron ore and other commodities have rebounded, in no small part because of demand from China, which is in the midst of a huge, government-led investment spree to combat the recession. Rio spurned Chinalco, did a joint venture with international competitor BHP Billiton, and announced a rights issue to raise capital. (See pictures of China's infrastructure boom...