Word: pilgrim
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...losing wealth reside in Clarke County, Ga., Congressman Broun's home turf, which also had $1.9 billion in deposits in financial institutions in 2006, according to the University of Georgia. That ain't chicken feed. And speaking of which, the fourth largest employer in the region, poultry processor Pilgrim's Pride, is now struggling with financing because credit markets have seized. There are 1,500 jobs in the balance if, say, Pilgrim's Pride can't make payroll because it doesn't have access to funds. It is unlikely that any of those workers invested in CDOs. It is certainly...
Miracle at St. Anna opens with images of John Wayne and his men in the World War II movie The Longest Day flickering on a TV screen in harsh black and white. Make that all white. An elderly African American (Laz Alonso) stares at the TV and murmurs, "Pilgrim, we fought for this country...
...research, which was funded by the Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, among other sources, showed that for two of the drugs, direct advertising had no impact on prescription patterns for either group. Sales for Zelnorm did experience a short-lived spike at the start of the marketing campaign, but fell back to a similar prescription rate after a few years...
...however, normalcy had been replaced by strife, death, curfews and checkpoints. The immediate cause of the conflict this time was a dispute between Muslims and Hindus over 100 acres (40 hectares) of land near the Amarnath shrine in the Kashmir valley, which Indian authorities had granted to a Hindu pilgrim group. A compromise now gives the group exclusive use, but not permanent title, to the land - which they will use to build temporary shelters during their annual trek - and the protests have subsided. But the prospect of losing any territory has brought back to the surface the decades of unresolved...
...much a way of expressing 'Thai-ness' but more about placing things found around us that might be funny or surprising," says Pijitra Lalitasakun, who turned Hanuman, the monkey god from Hindu epic the Ramayana, into a motif that adorns items by Bangkok's Hey Pilgrim! label. The 28-year-old says that if Bangkok has identity issues they are not cultural but to do with market perception - it is seen as "the place where you buy silk and cheap wholesale." She would like it to be "a true player on the fashion front" instead...