Word: solness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vista y Sol On the beach (telephone...
...civil war that left the country littered with land mines, this kind of cool did not exist. The shops had food, but few luxuries, mailboxes were little more than garbage cans, and the way forward was along unmarked roads gouged with potholes. There was jazz - the Costa do Sol, at the end of [an error occurred while processing this directive] Maputo's Sunset Boulevard, the Avenida de Marginal, was serving up sax and prawns long before an AK-47 made it onto the Mozambican flag - but to get there you had to cling to the back of a pickup truck...
...people haven't fully absorbed that the political rules have changed on Telstra, including those hard-driving executives who run the company. Since he arrived last year, chief executive Sol Trujillo has participated in a flamboyant campaign against the regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; senior ministers are in thrall, if that's the right word, to his charm, moxie and talent to infuriate. Trujillo, however, is doing what he was hired to do: get the best deals possible for Telstra shareholders, hurt the competition and revamp the company for growth. The market has yet to applaud his efforts...
Yerba maté, the South American herb prized for fighting fatigue, aiding digestion and boosting energy, showed up in a number of products. Pixie Maté, above, is a line of smooth, earthy-tasting lattes, while Sol Maté is a lightly carbonated, refreshing energy drink offering a natural alternative to traditionally syrupy-sweet energy drinks...
...blush now when I think what we must have looked like." But they liked it, and they kept coming back. In the late 1980s they bought a holiday apartment for around €30,000 in [an error occurred while processing this directive] Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol, which was fine while their two daughters were young, but then their standards rose. "The holiday complex was rather noisy in summer, with disco music and children running around, and the apartment was too small for a permanent home," says Anne, 60. Then in 2002, when there was a lull in their...