Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Royal Family, the British courts, most of the watching British public and, possibly, Al Fayed, this verdict marks The End of a long, exhausting and bewildering saga. But for anyone who likes melodramas about rebellious princesses, it's just another chapter...
Although that feud is part of sports lore, the saga of Adidas also holds insights into the durability of a global brand. Adidas survived corporate intrigue, near bankruptcy and being outmarketed and overtaken by Nike. It is still the No. 2 maker of sporting goods in the world...
These losses are tough on all recipients, but the rank and file suffers most. Many top execs have been bailed out with supplemental grants and so-called reloads. What may be most interesting about this saga, though, is that after stock prices tumbled from 2000 to 2002 and another bull market was calving, broad-based stock-option plans began to fade. Some 8 million workers received grants in 2000; the number dropped to 3 million by last year, Kay says. The total value of grants has slipped by a third, says the NCEO...
...knocking down false rumors about Clinton's anti-Vietnam activities. Yet, while her husband has been grousing about the media's coverage of Obama for months, the candidate was passing out chocolate hearts to her press corps as recently as Valentine's Day. This, too, is part of the saga: since the early 1980s, Hillary Clinton has tried charming the press in between denunciations - they way you might say "good doggie" to a growling cur while reaching for the pepper spray...
...Still, it is difficult to see it as anything but a change of heart. Rice says her next book will be a continuation of her multi-part series chronicling Jesus Christ's life; the second novel in that saga, Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, comes out March 4. She plans to write a third installment in that series before tackling what she now claims to be her final vampire book. For a prolific author who writes a book approximately every 15 months, that means it may be at least another three years before we once again see blood...