Word: roofs
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...companies jumped ship to join the Internet gold rush, their fledgling firms funded by venture capitalists desperate to get a piece of the next big thing. And as those companies listed on the stock markets, financial institutions got in on the act, driving valuations and share prices through the roof. On March 10, 2000, Germany's Neuer Markt, France's Nouveau Marché, Italy's Nuovo Mercato and the granddaddy of the high-tech bourses, America's nasdaq, all reached new peaks. Then the tide turned, taking with it many investors, market analysts and the brash young things with their...
...second biggest economy, and besides that the biggest foreign owner of U.S. Treasury bills. If falling Japanese stocks drag down the Japanese banks that - amazingly - use those very stocks as collateral, they might have to start selling. All those Treasuries hit the market, U.S. interest rates hit the roof - a familiar worry, but this year? Sayonara slowdown, hello recession...
...building, modern but rectangular, will be contructed from a light Wisconsin limestone. On the roof of a lower wing will be a garden adding "a soft top to a flat roof...
...father built this house he now lies in. He poured the concrete and framed up both floors and hoisted the roof beam and shingled the roof and nailed the siding and the flooring and the insulation and the drywall, and planted the apple orchard and the half-acre of vegetable garden to feed his six children...
...change! No change!" As soon as they see him, the hot, sweaty crowd starts shouting, pushing to get close, trying to touch him. A sea of hands waving thumbs-up draws President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni out through the sun roof of his white Land Rover to return the victory signal. Dressed in suit and tie and wearing his trademark wide-brimmed green safari hat, he grins at the warm reception. Even in multitribal Uganda, this is not your everyday political rally. The Karamajong are colorful, usually naked cattle rustlers straight out of the pages of National Geographic magazine. Full Story...