Word: spedding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...home to the world's investors. His semiconductor company, Infineon Technologies, was about to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Like another Schumacher - Formula One star Michael - the CEO is serious about racing, so he cruised down Wall Street in a F-1 car. Infineon's stock sped out of the starting blocks on March 13, 2000 and hit a high on the Frankfurt exchange of €92.50 in June. Then demand for semiconductors slumped, and Infineon hit a slick of red ink as losses mounted over the next two years. The company's share price has fallen...
...opened a bank in Jordan that grew into the country's second largest, then was expropriated by the Jordanian government in the late '80s amid charges of fraud. Chalabi was convicted in absentia by a Jordanian military court after friends, said to include Jordan's then Crown Prince Hassan, sped him out of the country. Chalabi has always maintained his innocence. Many State Department officials say Chalabi has been good at lobbying Congress for money but poor at accounting for his spending. These officials also argue that he has no political constituency in Iraq. When Chalabi made public appearances around...
...This morning we sped along the road back toward Tikrit. I dozed a little, no longer looking for dangers all along the road, until we suddenly saw figures running away from a large gas station, and heard long bursts of automatic fire. My driver Karim, who had not fully recovered from the previous day, saw other cars turning in front of us, did a U-turn and floored the gas. I forced him to stop and we checked the situation with oncoming vehicles...
...only bad guys, at least on this day, were the looters. Thousands of Kurds entered the city Thursday morning and with barely a struggle occupied the city behind the rapidly fleeing Iraqi forces. Almost immediately hundreds of pickups, buses, taxis and dump trucks full of cheering Kurds sped down the road from the Kurdish capital city of Erbil. On the other side of the road was a similar procession away from Kirkuk, and these cars were loaded high with looted goods...
...started heading toward them along the river. Talraas could see more "technicals" moving across the bridge about a thousand meters off to the left. That's when the white van appeared, its red lights flashing. After they were shot at, Talraas' driver, Sergeant Michael Maita, hit the gas and sped back to the southeastern corner of the town. Maita had been shot in the hand. "But," said Talraas, "he kept his wits about him and they got out of there," Maita shouting "Medic! Medic!" as they tore back to safety...