Word: momentous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...known for a certain candor in the kitchen, but you've also described yourself as being very big-hearted. How did you find it to interact with the contestants? Firstly, I'm there to do a job. When it comes to that moment of sacking somebody, then I have to make my decision, and my decision has to be born out of pure judgment; nothing to do with emotion...
...moment, there are few buyers for the toxic assets that are poisoning Citigroup, Bank of America and other major financial players. The unsellable loans sit on the banks' balance sheets at a huge loss, priced from zero to an optimistic 60% of what they might have sold for before the crash...
...early single, “Shut Down,” and a punchy one-off of the Zantee’s “So Easy Baby” are so catchy they’d be radio friendly, band name and album title aside. But the finest moment on “Fuckbook” is the unassumingly beautiful cover of the Kinks’ “This Is Where I Belong,” the single cut that could just as easily be on the next Yo La Tengo album. And maybe it should have been instead.Condo...
Consider for a moment why certain stocks rallied. The news that gave Citi - and a bunch of other finance firms - such a boost was that the New York City-based company would be profitable for the months of January and February. Fantastic, but those results exclude asset write-downs (i.e., one of the big reasons the stock takes a beating most other days of the week). Another big gainer: United Technologies. What did the aerospace-equipment and industrial-products maker do to earn an 8.6% boost to its stock price? It said it would lay off 11,600 people. (Read...
...It’s hard to articulate how special that moment was,” Finelli said. “Just to step onto the court one more time and put on my uniform one more time…to be on the floor with my teammates. I’ve missed it terribly over the past week and a half or so, but to get that back is really special...