Word: lost
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...long stocks hold those positions in the face of the threat from H1N1 remains to be seen. The fact that shares hit hard early had regained lost ground Monday suggests markets had earlier "responded in the time honored fashion," says Howard Wheeldon, senior strategist at BGC Partners in London, namely with "a degree of overreaction...
...learned of the treatment during her fellowship in pediatric dermatology studying under Paller.) She says parents and patients are usually dumbfounded when she first suggests the remedy. "They call in relatives from the waiting room to witness the insanity," Silverberg laughs. "Many patients look at me like I've lost my marbles...
...hope that those with an overabundance of "things" will recognize that because of a pervasive sense of greed and entitlement, many have lost all they worked for. Maybe as a nation we will develop a conscience and realize the harm we've done. Mary Jo Lisborg, Fayetteville...
...been here before. Graham Farquhar, a partner in Ernst & Young's employment tax division, says the mad rush "is reminiscent of what we saw during the downturn in 2001," with employees suddenly acting on perks they may have forgotten were on offer. Katarina, who lost her marketing job with a cosmetics firm in Frankfurt, joined a gym before her last day to secure a corporate discount, which saves her $40 a month. "I've been unemployed for the past month but my gym membership is still the rate of a working person's," she says...
That's an understatement. Russia's military is still largely a remnant of the Soviet days, when the Red Army's millions were spread across a vast swath of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. When the Soviet empire began collapsing in 1989, Russia lost the bulk of its foot soldiers, as well as several key defense-related industries, ranging from shipbuilding in Ukraine to nuclear enrichment in Kazakhstan, according to an analysis of Russia's military in February by Stratfor, a U.S. company. The upheaval also forced many of Russia's finest engineers to quit for better-paid jobs abroad...