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Bernstein: Our U.S. economist, Dave Rosenberg, is not the most bullish economist you'll meet - he's still thinking the GDP's going to continue to decelerate pretty much through 2009 followed, maybe, by slightly better growth in 2010. When the recovery does come it will be somewhat anemic relative to past recoveries. So, he's still looking for what people call a saucer-shaped recovery as opposed to the V-shaped recovery that a lot of people like to talk about...
...visible from its mountaintops to the pens of the dairy cows that once were the bedrock of local commerce. Atop Mt. Kamisodegawa, the 12 wind turbines, each 305 feet (93 m) tall, have the capacity to convert mountain gusts into 21,000 KW of electricity - more than enough to meet the needs of the town's residents. The excess is sold to neighboring communities...
...scanners - suitcases containing wedding outfits and jewelry, wedding gifts wrapped in glittering paper, even personal handbags. It feels more like an airport than a hotel famed for hospitality. "I'm not coming back here in a hurry," declares Diya Singh, a fashion designer who has come to meet friends at Rick's, the hotel's famous bar. "It took me 20 minutes to drive here, and 45 minutes to clear the security checks!" (Click here for photos of the siege of Mumbai...
President Bush's fiscal lifeline for GM and Chrysler, announced at the White House Friday morning, amounts to a $13.4 billion handoff to the incoming Administration of President-elect Obama. The deal is rife with indistinct targets the automakers must meet to avoid being forced to repay the loan in three months, squishy conditions for union sacrifices and a deadline that can be changed under numerous circumstances. And of course the entire thing can be renegotiated at will by the incoming Administration...
...When we meet him, Carl is living by the Alcoholics Anonymous mantra that "no" is a complete sentence. He gamely deflects every dinner invitation by inventing outlandish excuses about how busy he is. At the bank, he automatically rejects every loan application. He can rouse himself to passion only when watching a Saw movie in his cocoon of a home, cheering on the man who has to amputate his foot: "Oh, come on, you're halfway through, cut it off already...