Word: pigged
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...latest figures for existing U.S. home sales. In other words, a painful U.S. slowdown is not, by any means, a given. And for those who are suddenly taking their cues from China, there is also this heartening thought: the Chinese have just welcomed in the Year of the Pig on the lunar calendar, which means investors in the U.S., at least, should be delighted. According to an investing website called the Kirk Report, in all but one Year of the Pig since 1935, both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 have gone up - usually sharply...
...books, bulk containers of Easy Mac, cardboard boxes, and the tell-tale anxiety of freshman move-in day. Amidst the madness, Stephen T. Norberg ’06 rummages through his belongings and discovers a framed piece of thick paper decorated with a whimsical owl and a smartly dressed pig. It’s his kindergarten diploma. Carefully navigating the chaos, his left arm almost destroying a perfectly folded pile of undershirts, he crosses the room and secures the diploma onto the blank wall above his wooden desk. Pausing for several moments as his exhausted roommates look on in wonderment...
...give business flyers more flexibility. Simon Martin, a British futures exchange analyst who usually flies BA, Delta or American, was on an EOS flight for two reasons: he didn't want his business compromised by potential labor troubles (since resolved) at BA, and he was the company's guinea pig for finding other airline options. He would report to colleagues that EOS was "slightly better" than BA's first class. "It's a dirty job," he said, after finger sandwiches and a sweet cheese soufflé, "but someone...
YEAR OF THE PIG STY Shanghai's week-long spring festival kicked off the Year of the Pig on Feb. 18. Revelers set off so many boxes of fireworks-- 380,000--that the city hired 20,000 people to clean the streets each...
...coaster) with minimal orchestral backing. With typical understatement, Durkin calls it musical "Ping Pong." Only the finest sopranos can survive such exercise. Handel's original Alcina, Anna Strada, was unkindly described by a contemporary as having "so little of Venus in her appearance, that she was usually called the Pig." But more than anyone else, it was a 33-year-old Australian, 225 years later, who put Alcina center stage. Joan Sutherland's stupendous stamina and strength in Franco Zeffirelli's 1960 production at La Fenice not only earned her the title of La Stupenda but single-handedly brought this...