Word: sheen
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more than 3.1 million Indians own shares in Reliance companies, which have a combined market capitalization of more than $20 billion. Yet it has taken just one extraordinary week?during which a long-simmering battle for control of the conglomerate burst into the open?to strip Reliance of the sheen of invincibility it acquired over four decades...
...blue-blood and the ratty double of two dudes from downstate Illinois does not a happy triple make. The point is that everyone knows that there are rich people and poor people here at Harvard. This new service would just allow you to measure economic well-being by the sheen on the linoleum. Wealth probably shouldn’t correlate with dust bunny size...
...made my escape. I sailed up into the darkening sky with light snow sifting down around me. Moody music, like something from Carmina Burana, swelled in the background. The sounds of battle faded beneath me in the dusk. It was like the end of Platoon, and I was Charlie Sheen. Then the waterworks started...
...think there's been such a resurgence of interest in American standards? Those songs offer a window into a life that's calmer and more beautiful than the one you may be living. It's like looking through your scrapbook in a way. The memories acquire a patina, a sheen they didn't have when we were growing...
...from the contrast between this and the spaciousness of the homes Vera cleans. An abiding atmosphere of tension contributes equally. Relations with Vera’s in-laws are clearly strained, and the audience’s knowledge that Vera’s friend Lily (Ruth Sheen) is using her makes the subtle drama bubble until the dramatic push toward an inevitable climax causes it to boil over...