Word: moment
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hard time lining up the financing that would be needed for any deal with Chrysler, even though the U.S.Congress recently approved $25 billion in loan guarantees. In the meantime, GM is going through about $1 billion in cash a month, a situation that it can manage for the moment but not forever, according to analysts...
...centuries, Europeans believed that all swans were white - until black swans were discovered in Australia. A possibly minor moment in ornithology, but one that for Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former trader turned philosopher, perfectly illustrates how poorly our past experience of the world can prepare us for sudden, unexpected, epochal events. His 2007 book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, gave rise to a new name for these moments, both positive black swans (the rise of the Internet) and negative ones (the 9/11 attacks). Taleb has argued that much of the recent market turmoil has been...
...bought when share prices were at their lowest point". Sarkozy also wants governments in countries that use the euro to have greater powers to manage it against other currencies, and to significantly extend the term lengths of the rotating E.U. presidency - which France just happens to hold at the moment. Both suggestions met opposition from other European countries...
...episode, which speaks loudly about the type of album it came from. Who better to accompany a group of self-absorbed, neurotic 20-somethings in the OR than a self-absorbed, neurotic 20-something on the guitar? Thankfully, “Grey’s” moment has passed, and hopefully “Hope for the Hopeless” will soon follow suit. —Reviewer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
...What I came away from the event with was a much stronger snapshot of how someone in the Nobel committee evaluates the state of literature in the world at this moment,” Lenfield said...