Word: kicking
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...ways to see the "credit crunch" that helped kick off our broader economic trouble is by looking at how much companies have to pay to borrow money. For the better part of a year, the premium that firms have had to shell out above what investors could alternatively earn on government bonds has been fantastically high...
Listen up, all ye coeds: the dress code on campus is about to kick up a notch. In the past year, a number of top financial professionals have decided to swap toxic assets and big acquisitions for academia...
...Under the current 10-percent plan, families earning $180,000 pay just $18,000 per year. For the next few years, we can justifiably ask these upper-income families to kick in a bit more—say, $22,000 or 12 percent. Scaling back half of the newest initiative, which was projected to cost $22 million but will likely cost significantly more, would leave our financial aid program between where it was at the end of the Summers presidency (very good) and where it is now (extraordinarily generous...
...graduated to the Harry Potter franchise; he will have directed four of the final eight Potters.) The film's director, Kevin Macdonald, who did The Last King of Scotland, is not a flair fellow. The chase scenes interpolated into this version have no special oomph; the encounters no residual kick. Paging Ridley Scott? Oh, sorry, too late...
...perhaps the key difference for Chávez at this summit is that he doesn't have George W. Bush to kick around anymore. Barack Obama, in fact, is the anti-Bush, a liberal welcomed by most of Latin America who is far harder for Chávez to attack as a yanqui imperialista. "I think Chávez may be trapped at the Trinidad summit," says Nikolas Kozloff, who endorses Chávez's social policies and is the author of Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S. "Populism thrives on conflict...