Word: stocked
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...cares what the First Lady wears? The stock market, for one. Since the Inauguration, every time Michelle Obama has worn a J. Crew outfit, the company's stock has enjoyed a boost, and the items she has chosen have sold out. Michelle's sleeveless dresses have sparked a national dialogue about appropriateness, and her decision to wear a cardigan sweater to visit Queen Elizabeth provoked an international debate about etiquette. But watching the attire of the nation's First Ladies is hardly a new sport. Pat Nixon's cloth coat and Jackie Kennedy's pillbox hats provoked plenty of conversation...
...CSAT holds a singularly sacred place in Korean culture. On the day of the national exam, many businesses and the stock market open late in order to keep the roads clear for students driving to their testing locations. Airplanes are prohibited from landing or taking off from Korean airports during the listening section. Korea’s temples and churches are filled with praying parents...
...Australian-British Rio Tinto, which controls, among other mines, vast iron-ore deposits in Australia. The bid sparked a huge controversy in Australia, with the political opposition running TV ads skewering any proposed deal. In June Rio Tinto's shareholders backed out, arguing that the company's recovering stock price allowed them to consider other offers. In the end Australian-British mining giant BHP Billiton stepped into the breach. (Read "Another Deal Blown, Where Will China Invest...
Enter fellow Canadian, John McCall MacBain, a self-made billionaire who founded the Auto Trader classified-advertising empire, but in 2006 sold it and set up a foundation to promote health and the environment in the developing world. In April 2008, McCall MacBain bought 90% of BRE's stock. Strickland invested $1 million of his own money, and quit the hedge fund to become BRE's president...
...University of Minnesota School of Medicine and the lead author of the new paper, Hippocrates himself said that in order to test whether patients were faking their illness, doctors must ask whether they are pulling out their hair. The behavior is so commonly associated with distress that the stock phrase to describe a stressful situation is that it causes you to tear your hair...