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...Cigarettes can do vicious things to good people. They make you stink. They make people self-centered as they interrupt conversations for a smoke break. They make generous people miserly as everyone and their mother tries to bum a smoke. They make nonsmokers into judgmental, disapproving assholes...
...more than 600 cork producers in Portugal alone, and quality control is a challenge. "My enemy is not an [aluminum] wine-stopper," says Carlos de Jesus, Amorim's marketing and communications director. "My problem is a cork stopper that ends up at your table tomorrow and it could stink. The guy making bad quality stoppers is what we worry about." De Jesus says winemakers' strong reaction to cork after the taint problems was all wrong; yes, perhaps the cork industry, which more or less enjoyed a world monopoly on its product until about the last decade, had grown complacent...
...credit worthiness to garner an AAA rating anymore. Here's where the potion gets its poison potential. Some individual parts of CDOs are about as base as bonds can be - some are not even investment grade. The assumption has been that even if the toxic waste bonds really stink, the quality tranches can keep the CDO above water. And life goes...
...Municipal politics stink worldwide, and it’s a pretty broken system in a lot of the world,” Fisman said. “What we’re trying to do is throw out an idea that is not in most discussions about how to fix the problem; not to say that this the final answer, but to at least stimulate debate about what types of mechanisms may or may not work...
...this year. Big stars wear the stink of scandal, and the commissioners of the major sports leagues are fuming or squirming in public. These gray men in suits are a sorry stand-in for the boys of summer...