Word: planet
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...then, Pelosi realized she was on the wrong side. She had previously told one interviewer that she wouldn't budge on drilling because she was "trying to save the planet." But a senior aide says that when Barack Obama came out in favor of a pro-drilling compromise emerging in the Senate just before the August recess, "she realized she was going to have to support...
...their teeth as Beijing got all the glory. But now that the Olympics are over, Shanghai is determined to reclaim the title of China's most happening metropolis. Just four days after the Summer Games' closing ceremony, Shanghai unveiled China's tallest building (and the third-highest on the planet), the Shanghai World Financial Center, a 101-story tower that sprouted from what had been marshland 15 years ago. The point, made with phallic overstatement, was unavoidable. Shanghai is back, and bigger than ever...
...failure for financial markets would be, but the fear was that it could lead to total chaos. The biggest fears had to do with the credit-default swaps, which AIG appears to have sold in large quantities to practically every financial institution of significance on the planet. RBC Capital Markets analyst Hank Calenti estimated Tuesday that AIG's failure would cost its swap counterparties $180 billion...
...Chad, he's so blithely unknowing that he's a relief from the film's strivers and connivers. The walk Pitt gives him, appropriate less for a guest on Dancing with the Stars than for a heretofore unclassified creature on Animal Planet, is the coolest thing in the picture--tied with the portentous percussion in Carter Burwell's underscoring, which in its pile-driving fashion builds suspense that never pays...
...Modern life gives us many things," the easygoing 45-year-old said on the van ride to his final day of painting. "But I've always wondered where does the trash go? Europe may be the most civilized, most mature society on the planet. So why is there this [waste] problem? It's not supposed to be like this...