Word: likelies
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this is a Stanford thing - it's really about the damage to your alma mater. Well, even Stanford guys aren't perfect (present company excepted, of course), but as you've noted, his image was about class and elegance. It's that image that has been shattered, sort of like the back window of his SUV, but maybe I'm pushing another metaphor too hard...
...Auto-industry insiders like to think of their business as impossibly complicated, involving as it does billions of dollars, intricate technology and the necessity of gauging consumer tastes three or four years in the future. By their reasoning, developing the necessary expertise takes decades of experience. No outsiders need apply. (See GM's great hopes...
Thompson says the exhibit design came together “out of memory” and “sort of like playing cards...
...felony, and trespassing can be charged as a felony if it is committed in order to advance another felony crime. Each of the charges carries a prison term of up to five years, but experts call a long sentence highly unlikely. "You don't come across cases like this too often," says Orin Kerr, another George Washington law professor. "The trial judge would have a lot of discretion to pick an appropriate sentence...
...sheet of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund puts Dubai's debt crisis in a softer light. And, as far as Dubai's leaders are concerned, the problem is largely limited to egregious overborrowing by one company in one sector: Nakheel, the Dubai World subsidiary behind huge property projects like the Palm and the World, built on injected sand off the Gulf coast. "It will take a bit of time, but Dubai will come back," a Dubai insider told TIME. "It will come back stronger, because the crisis will help create a more sustainable model for the future...