Word: nearest
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...many people our age, when you think about it, would be able to walk in without turning around and going to the nearest Holiday Inn?” he asks...
...Harry Potter games alone have sold more than 20 million units worldwide. After some down years, the video-game industry as a whole is growing, but EA is exploding: its revenues shot up more than 40% last year to $2.5 billion, almost three times the revenue of its nearest rival, Activision. And EA is managing to wring more sales out of fewer games: it produced only 58 in 2002 vs. 68 in 2000. "We do fewer things, and we do them better," says Probst. "We don't just throw something at the wall and hope it sticks...
...Internet boom has not missed Dean. Rather, it has handed him a bonanza of cash and buzz that would make most 1990s dotcom veterans--and politicians--weep. In the past three months, it was revealed last week, Dean has raised $7.5 million, $1.5 million more than his nearest Democratic rival, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, nudging Dean into the top tier of Democratic candidates. Two-thirds of all Dean contributions were made online. And as often happens in politics, bucks begat the Big Mo. A poll in the first caucus state, Iowa, released last week put Dean in second place...
...raise concerns over security, as he was arrested "within minutes." December 2002 A drunken reveler gets into St. James's Palace - the home of Prince Charles - but is reportedly only arrested when he knocks on the door to Princess Anne's apartments to ask the way to the nearest train station. Police say there was no danger to the royal family, but launch an inquiry into the breach...
...marched him across rivers and through forests, until they reached a camp hidden in a narrow gorge on the Nepalese border, hours from the nearest road. They held him there for a week, telling him they wanted a ransom of 3 million rupees ($64,000). But as the days dragged on and the police dragnet tightened, the kidnappers became nervous and dropped their price. Eventually, for the promise of $1,700, half of it as a loan, Salahuddin's abductors left him at an isolated village and fled. "I never paid," he says. "They might come back for their money...