Word: strikingly
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...said last week. "The government made a start and didn't finish the job. I would hope that doesn't happen again." Although Klein confirmed to TIME last Friday that he has "ongoing investigations into other issues" relating to Microsoft, for the moment he has opted for a surgical strike: bring a tightly focused case today that he might actually win and (perhaps) tackle larger issues somewhere down the road...
...South Korea: Not that disgruntled labor is anything new there, but the workers at Hyundai Motors are threatening to strike (which would cripple the Korean economy) unless they all get to keep their jobs (which would cripple the Korean economy...
France kicked off its World Cup soccer campaign today with a preemptive strike two weeks before the opening whistle. The French police coordinated with allies in five European cities to issue a yellow-card warning to Algeria?s Armed Islamic Group. At least 60 members and sympathizers were arrested in what appears to be less of a response to a specific threat or conspiracy, but a pre-emptive strike designed to wrong-foot elements who might be planning a world cup terror campaign, says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. ?France is sufficiently aware of the terrorist threat to have conducted...
...alchemy of derivatives rests on complex mathematical models that predict how markets and derivatives will behave under certain assumptions. The computer models use past market performance to portend the future, but they can't account for the unaccountable: every once in a while an asteroid does strike or countries blow up. These things aren't fully factored in the modeling. Besides, the global economy today is radically different from just five years ago. "Banks have been going out further and further on the risk spectrum, especially the big banks," says Furash. "They are all looking for bigger returns, since they...
...Bryan Drapp, 19, who organized the strike, is giving the company until June 1 to address lingering concerns. "If they don't comply by then," he said, "then we'll try to unionize." He and a few others attended a Teamsters Local 416 meeting Tuesday -- they will write out their concerns and the Teamsters will pass them along to McDonald's, Local 416 president Dominic Tocco said...