Word: slews
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GREEN TEA, pale in color and nutty in flavor, also contains antioxidants, which have been associated with a slew of health benefits, including lowering cholesterol and fighting tumor growth. Green tea has gone mainstream in the past few years--it's even available as a bottled iced...
...offers a choice for German banks: keep doing what you're doing and face low margins on your lending, or raise profitability by making it more expensive for customers to borrow money. Easier said than done. Any German bank that makes borrowing more expensive risks being undercut by a slew of competitors. Indeed, the listed banks - which have less than 20% market share in Germany - compete not only with one another but with Germany's Sparkassen and Landesbanken, regional savings and development banks that are underwritten by the government - a fact that has brought Germany into conflict with other...
...half hour later, Beck’s low-key stroll onto stage was met with a deserved crescendo of shouting. But without a word he turned down the mood by launching into a slew of downers, from the old surreal folkie “Pay No Mind” to the new love lament, “Guess I’m Doing Fine.” Perched on a stool in a bland shirt and tie, Beck shunned the goofiness that waxed falsetto on Axl Rose and tossed out two-dollar quips during this summer’s solo...
...Japan offers no support for the unemployed," frets Minoru Morita, a prominent political analyst. Already, LDP politicians and Tokyo bankers are circulating a list of 51 companies presumed likely to meet with peril under the plan?including retailer Mitsukoshi, video gamemaker Sega and trading outfit Nissho Iwai, plus a slew of construction, heavy machinery and real estate companies. Goldman Sachs estimates that if all 51 companies on the list were to close, Japan's unemployment rate would jump from 5.4% to 6.1%. And that tally doesn't include thousands of small and medium-sized businesses also likely to go belly...
Harvard freshman Sara Sedgwick, with a firm thrust of her head that propelled a ball deep into an unguarded crack in the Princeton defense, slew the final one, and thereby freed the Crimson players from their season-long curse against ranked opposition...