Word: liquidates
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...will also be no product placement in the movie itself. Even so, Save Harry!, an anti-Coke/Potter alliance campaign condemns the global marketing rights given to Coca-Cola for promoting consumption of unhealthy beverages. The Save Harry! website calls the alliance “a sales vehicle for liquid candy!” and urges J. K. Rowling to “save Harry from the grasp of Coca-Cola.” The reaction makes one wonder how far the campaigning would have gone if the alliance had been with a full-fledged fast food chain, a common...
...criticism by way of praise. In fact, wonderful and diverse though they may be, Harvard social groups are pretty calcified. Harvard students, with that strange brew of insecurity and determination, rarely hop from niche group to niche group. The exception may be the Yard, where social life is more liquid, constantly forming and re-forming until it congeals into blocking groups by mid-March. But after your first spring at Harvard, you have your friends and you cling to them fiercely...
...even without high-tech delivery systems, a single suicidal terrorist spraying a few drops of smallpox virus--or a liquid solution of Ebola or even plague--in a crowded mall or into the ventilation system of a large building could cause untold harm...
...secret of her own. The Gourmet Club, the short story of the book's title, is the hidden haven of a gourmand who concocts exotic dishes out of ingredients such as tree bark, bird droppings and human saliva for a menu that might feature "Phlegm-and-Spittle Liquid Jade" or "Velvet Carpeting Soup." Mr. Bluemound represents the epitome of extreme movie goddess worship: a smitten fan constructs a series of actual physical replicates of the star in various positions for his own erotic purposes. And in Manganese Dioxide Dreams the narrator pleasurably views his own stool specimens as if they...
...rampant insider trading and illegal bank lending for stock investments. A budding mutual-fund industry, seen as one key to the retirement security of hundreds of millions of Chinese, is forcing greater transparency in the markets while adding much needed trading volume to render the markets more efficient and liquid. Yet with so much remaining to be worked out, direct investment in China will probably not make sense for most people for at least another year...