Word: roman
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...what's in it for ADUG? For super-rich investors, short-term profits are an unlikely motive. Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has sunk more than $1 billion into Chelsea since buying the London club in 2003. But while that's earned the team two Premier League titles and a place in the finals of Europe's élite club competition, Chelsea still couldn't manage a profit...
...that Obama is not Reagan. It may be that he is more like Al Smith, whose Roman Catholicism was too much for a Protestant nation to handle in 1928. But if Obama is going to win, he's got to demonstrate, in the most dramatic forum possible, that he has the brains and disposition to be President. And he has to get this campaign around to Reagan's classic question: Are you better off than you were four years ago? time.com/swampland
...worked at Fort Detrick for 28 years. He lived in a small white house with his wife and two adopted children, directly across the street from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, and Ivins walked to work. He played the keyboard at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, and he liked to write letters to the editors of local papers...
...global reach of European, and particularly English, soccer has attracted two types of investors - entrepreneurs such as the Americans Malcolm Glazer (who owns Manchester United), Tom Hicks and George Gillet (who jointly own Liverpool) and Randy Lerner (Aston Villa); and billionaire prestige investors such as the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who has invested more than $1 billion in Chelsea, and former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who last year acquired Manchester City. Chelsea, with its 42,000-seat stadium, might be considered an underperforming asset from a strictly business point of view; its revenues in the years since Abramovich took...
...isotopes trapped in the ice core can tell you what the temperature was in a given year; trapped air bubbles can reveal how much carbon dioxide and other gases were in the atmosphere at a particular time. You can even trace impurities that were in the air during the Roman Empire to a specific lead mine in Spain, according to J.P. Steffensen, one of NEEM's field leaders...