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...whopping $669 million on a still stingy $35 million cumulative budget. That's the kind of return on investment that encourages a studio to keep grinding 'em out. Moreover, each of the last three entries made more than half its money in foreign markets, where Saw VI isn't going up against the no-budget specter of Paranormal. So gorenography aficionados can probably plan to don their goggles and their protective butchers, aprons next October...
...company isn't waiting to see if Mexicans and Kuwaitis like its food - it's already negotiating a deal to expand to the Philippines, and it's exploring options in Canada, Puerto Rico, India and Singapore. As for China itself, "Time will tell," says DeAngelis. But there's at least one food-industry model that suggests that the company may stand a chance at selling Americanized Chinese food to Chinese in China. After pulling out of the Mexican market in 1992, Taco Bell relaunched in the country two years ago and now has plans to expand to 300 outlets...
...case could decide the political futures of both men. But as all of France watches agog, it has also come to symbolize the huge chasm in class and upbringing at the heart of France's political class and the country itself. "Their confrontation isn't just one of politics and ideology, but a battle of culture and class between the petit bourgeois and the aristocrat; between the lofty, cerebral leadership figure and the pragmatic official driven to get things done - and it cuts across France's entire political landscape," says political analyst Stéphane Rozès, president...
MacFarlane's best show, American Dad, is also his lowest rated - maybe because it isn't simply a remake of Family Guy. Yes, its protagonist, CIA agent Stan Smith, is a nuclear-family patriarch. And where Family Guy has a talking dog and Cleveland a talking bear, Dad has both a talking alien (a show-tune-obsessed card with a voice like Paul Lynde's) and a talking goldfish. (See the worst TV spin-offs of all time...
...recent Friday when their country's election crisis continued to unfold, a clique well to do Afghans flew kites on dusty Nadir Shah Hill in Kabul. The hill is famous for this - sometimes it is simply called Kite Hill. It is a dusty, rutted place, overlooking the city. "This isn't proper," says Mohammed Ushan, 54, who works at the ministry of construction. "The Municipality of Kabul ought to take better care of this hill." His friend, Aziz Ullah Kukchar, 37, adds that the whole place ought to be developed. "If there was a proper park, and restaurants, and billiards...