Word: parings
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...credit debacle now look far worse than previously expected. Housing sales and starts are down sharply, while shares in everything from homebuilders to banks to mortgage insurers have been massacred. Moreover, there's a deepening fear that U.S. consumers - a key driver of global economic growth - might dramatically pare back their spending in the wake of this assault upon their wealth and confidence. In a recent letter to shareholders, legendary U.S. money manager Bill Miller warned: "The difference between what is unfolding now and the Crash of '87, or the problems with Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, is that...
...Attorney Wayne Margolis. Simpson first raised suspicions when she approached a MassPort employee working in Terminal C to ask about the status of an arriving flight. After briefly meandering through the terminal, Simpson exited and was confronted by Massachusetts State Police troopers wielding submachine guns, State Police Major Scott Pare said in a press conference Friday morning. “She followed instructions as was required by the State Police and within minutes the Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit found that it was an innocuous device and we took her into custody,” Pare said according to MIT?...
...proposed revisions could hurt the U.S. venture-capital industry, which helps small companies get big and is the envy of the world. Private-equity firms--which buy companies with mostly borrowed money, fix them up or pare them down, then sell them--are more controversial but have perhaps made corporate America more efficient and competitive. Ramping up taxes on these guys could lead to unpleasant consequences: think about the next Google going unfunded because money was diverted to pay taxes. Losing such opportunities might far outweigh the few billion dollars in annual revenue the tax change would bring...
...style that predominates in current high-art festival films (ones, by the way, that rarely get much exposure in U.S. movie houses) is minimalist. Based on the works of early masters like Carl-Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson, it follows certain rules, as restrictive as any Mennonite edicts: pare movie technique down to its essentials; show characters behaving, however mutely, rather than acting; make the viewer work for their epiphanies. This style has been responsible for many small, lugubrious films and -from directors who know how to make more or less -a few masterpieces. Silent Light is one of them...
...much-criticized Core.Several professors continued to express concern yesterday with some of the program’s more specific qualities. Calling the new program “too much of a good thing,” former dean of the College Harry R. Lewis suggested that his colleagues pare down the required number of courses from eight to six.He said that the program’s deficiencies were a result of “the chaos of the past few years.”“Because of leadership crises,” Lewis said...