Word: poisoned
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...tranches and declare them to be a golden AAA rated. Top shelf. If you want to own AAA debt, CDOs have been about the only place to go; hardly any corporation can muster the credit worthiness to garner an AAA rating anymore. Here's where the potion gets its poison potential. Some individual parts of CDOs are about as base as bonds can be - some are not even investment grade. The assumption has been that even if the toxic waste bonds really stink, the quality tranches can keep the CDO above water. And life goes...
...Spies, guns, poison, intertwined plots so convoluted that you need to keep flicking back to the beginning of the book: it could all come from the pages of a cold war thriller. But it is very of the moment. The British government's decision to protest Moscow's refusal to hand over Lugovoi by expelling four Russian diplomats is just the latest manifestation not only of an increasingly bad-tempered spat between two nations, but of the estrangement from the West of Vladimir Putin's Russia...
...look round after the battle and find you?re standing in a charred field." After a judicial inquiry cleared Campbell, he quickly left Downing Street. "I knew I had to get out," he says. "I was in charge of the media operation and my relations with the media were poison...
...that is precisely the danger here. Fury begets fury. Poison from the right-wing talk shows seeped into the Republican Party's bloodstream and sent that party off the deep end. Limbaugh's show-where Dick Cheney frequently expatiates-has become the voice of the Republican establishment. The same could happen to the Democrats. The spitballs aimed at me don't matter much. The spitballs aimed at Harman, Clinton and Obama are another story. Despite their votes, each of those politicians believes the war must be funded. (Obama even said so in his statement explaining his vote.) Each knows...
...felt bad that you called me quirky and deemed two of my movies "box-office poison." But then I noticed in the same issue you said that Dennis Rodman's sometime religion is "Moron" and that Farrah Fawcett has Jell-O for brains. Now I realize it's still an honor to be mentioned in such a classy magazine...