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Steel companies don't usually help spark political revolutions. But then Ukraine's Kryvorizhstal is no ordinary steel firm. With annual production of about 7 million tons, it is by far Ukraine's biggest steelmaker, accounting for 20% of output, and one of the country's most valuable companies. Last year, it became a powerful symbol of the nation's crony capitalism. In a privatization widely decried as rigged, Kryvorizhstal was sold last June by the state to Viktor Pinchuk, the son-in-law of then-President Leonid Kuchma, and coal-and-steel magnate Rinat Akhmetov, for $800 million, less...
...Redmond was careful to say that despite the attacks on Summers, she hoped the GESO report would spark all Ivy League presidents toward action...
...ultimately determine whether individual faculty members choose to pack it up. For our sake—and for Harvard’s—we hope that faculty members will be brave and resolute enough to use their present gripes not as an excuse to leave, but as a spark to start crafting a new, better College...
...spark that could have gotten the Bulldogs, who were trailing by 15 at the time, back in the game became the crushing blow that signaled the team’s defeat...
...referring to meatheads in general, once said, “They’re 220 pounds of dynamite with a quarter-inch [expletive] fuse.” Tell me football player, did David’s friendly remark and your 15 beers at the Kong not mix well and spark the fire that lit that fuse? Oh, what an explosion ensued...