Search Details

Word: sheetings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...seething center of the angry Crescent City was the Superdome, refuge of utterly last resort for 25,000 people who had waited out the worst of the storm while the sheet-metal roof peeled like fruit, letting the rains pour in. Soon there was no light, no air, no working toilets. Reports came that four of the weakest died that first night. An elderly man, playing cards and seemingly fine, threw himself over a railing inside the stadium and committed suicide, witnesses told TV reporters. Members of the city's EMS team made their way there only to find anarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aftermath | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

...product for our customers. It was a hole in our product line. Going the other way, we have the opportunity to offer [Providian's] customers basic checking accounts, home-equity loans, mortgage loans and savings products. Another very important part is that it will help us diversify our balance sheet to loans other than prime residential home loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEO Speaks: Banking On the People | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

...even hardly bear going through" the point where the Challenger exploded, her other brother Jon said. "After that point, you can relax." Clark's son Iain said he wished someone else could have gone instead of his mom because he was missing her. She had taken with her a sheet containing all the pictures and fingerprints of his second-grade classmates. She emailed her family about how beautiful Mount Fuji looked from space, and the Sahara Desert, and the stars, up close. The fears that weighed on her family sat lightly on her. "To me, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seven Astronauts, One Fate | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

...free of such sinful enterprises as pornography and gambling, he credits the recent high performance to a terrestrial treasure: real estate. "It is fortuitous that the portfolio is weighted more toward property than other comparable funds," Henderson says. A similar happy fate has helped turn around the balance sheet on the Holy See's some €200 million annual operating budget, which accounts for the Roman Curia, Vatican diplomatic missions and media outlets. With the sale of several palazzos in Italy and an overall appreciation in real estate value, the Vatican closed with a net gain of €24.9 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

...MOGLIA Our performance has been extraordinary. In a difficult environment our market cap has grown by five- or sixfold. We have greater than 50% pretax margins. We've got a pristine balance sheet. We are 25% of the active-trader market in the U.S. We're a very, very attractive asset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEO Speaks: New Game Plan | 7/7/2005 | See Source »

Previous | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | Next