Word: raked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Japanese ads for the movie insist, "the world awaits with bated breath." The world probably doesn't much care, but Disney is using its formidable marketing resources to convince Japanese moviegoers they should. After a critical drubbing and a disappointing box office in the U.S., Disney is hoping to rake in close to $100 million in box-office receipts in Japan, the world's second largest movie market and now the company's best hope of turning the staggeringly expensive film into a blockbuster. In preparation for the movie's July 14 opening in Japan, the studio has shelled...
With the amount of money my Crimson Caller friends rake in each night, I know it isn’t the costs that are impeding installation...
...sold their UMTS licenses in auctions. The wireless operators bid prices for bits of the sky up to, well, the sky. Last year the U.K. and Germany won $32 billion and $45 billion respectively, sums that amount to almost $550 per capita. In total, European governments are likely to rake in $108 billion from the sale of UMTS licenses, according to Durlacher research. In hindsight, the telecom operators overpaid, since these days some UMTS airspace is tough to give away. Last month, Belgium found only three bidders for its four licenses...
...that end she is working on a "brief love story" called Paper Pool, based on artist David Hockney's luminous pictures. Oh, but there's also a book on poker. And another inspired by Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress. "There's always that exciting moment when you see something in your head," she explains, "and you feel you've never seen something like it before, and you have this passionate desire to see it exist." Whatever new world she creates next, surely readers will want...
...members are far more concerned by such "windbags" than the gentleman who penned last Friday's letter. For them, such people are not just a nuisance, they poison the work they are trying to accomplish. Council members understand better than anyone else the fact that the muck these people rake seems inevitably to find a quicker route to page one of The Crimson than any benefit they may bring students, a fact which is borne out (I am guessing) by the surprise with which most of you have read the accomplishments of the council that have been listed. The difference...