Word: shells
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...took a huge bite of 2001's stock losses, but all three major indexes still posted losses for the second straight year. Another three bears in 2002 would make it the first three-year losing streak since 1941. And more than a few forecasters - seeing disappointing corporate earnings, still-shell-shocked capital spenders and languid consumer demand - are predicting just that...
...five short online films by directors including Ang Lee and Guy Ritchie, a chauffeur undertakes different missions. The common thread: spare story lines, action, high production values...oh, and the car. BMW aimed the pricey campaign at computer-addicted upscale buyers. For everyone else, it was reason to shell out--for high-speed Internet hookups...
Simonetta Vespucci, the mistress of Giuliano de' Medici, died of tuberculosis at 23, but it is said Botticelli used her lissome and rhythmical curves as the model for Venus on her half-shell and Flora in La Primavera. Vespucci may have looked like that, or she may not. Maybe she was a blond pudge like Pamela Anderson. Getting tumbled in a wave of neo-Platonic fantasizing about how outer shape mirrors inner essence--"For Soule is Forme, and doth the Bodie make," wrote the poet Spenser in 1596--may be great for the figure and complexion when court painters like...
...drive from the border to Kandahar, we saw scattered shell holes on the highway and the occasional tractor, truck and jeep apparently destroyed by air strikes...
...shell-shocked I can’t remember how I responded, but I guess they liked my answer,” said Sachs, who is also a Crimson executive...