Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where doctors complain about shortages of basic drugs and syringes. At a children's hospital outside the city of Karbala, southwest of Baghdad, the sweltering, fly-infested wards are jammed with youngsters suffering from diarrhea and dehydration. "I've already lost two children, and now I am about to lose another one," said a young mother with tears rolling down her cheeks. A driver in Baghdad told a similar story about the deaths of a sister and a three-year-old daughter. "We had no money, no medicine to save them." "What future do we have?" he asked with remarkable...
...including dividends, has soared 86% in the past year. But even for a darling, the heat of bright lights is no place to be when your company employs a rare and mysterious tax structure, as does Sternlicht's. That structure is the wax in his wings, and, win or lose ITT, its benefits could melt away and send Starwood, Icarus-like, tumbling from the stratosphere...
...paired-share structure. By opting to go after a big name like ITT, Sternlicht has created a personal Catch-22. If the scrutiny he's invited shows that his paired-share status is an unfair edge, lawmakers may impose limits; if it shows relatively little value, investors may lose enthusiasm. Either way, Starwood's wings melt...
States get half their revenue from the sales tax. Mail-order sales lose them an estimated $3.5 billion a year. If that doesn't break your heart, consider the unfairness to traditional stores, which must compete at a 4% or 6% or 8% government-imposed disadvantage...
...Warner Bros. and MGM, which were besting Disney in the quality and appeal of their animated shorts, never produced a feature-length cartoon. Only in the mid-'80s, when the studio taken over by Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg had yet to hint at a renaissance, did Disney lose its animation pre-eminence. An American Tail, produced in 1986 by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, took in $47 million at the North American box office, equal to the grosses of both the previous Disney effort, The Black Cauldron, and its follower, The Great Mouse Detective...