Word: suitors
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Those Washington Senators and Cabinet members who seem to think Monti was acting mainly to protect European companies are laughably off base. In Europe, everyone knows that GE's most determined opponent was United Technologies, Honeywell's jilted American suitor. Chris Bright, one of GE's lawyers in Brussels, says the Commission sent United Technologies away "to find the mud, and in the end, unfairly, the mud stuck." One more lesson: the slow confirmation process in Washington has a cost. Had James been confirmed as antitrust chief at the Justice Department by March, say, regulators on both sides...
While Goldman Sachs millionaire Jon Corzine made it to the Senate last year, Bloomberg notes that three-quarters of wealthy candidates fail. And New York City has never elected a rich suitor. As Giuliani learned in 1989, the first time a novice runs for mayor, he loses. Still, the billionaire says he would rue not running more than he would a loss. "If you believe you can make a difference, you will regret it the rest of your life if you don't give it a shot," he says. Five months of campaigning may make him rethink that...
...After which, UPN announced its newest acquisition... the WB's "Roswell," which came not with the romance of having been spirited off by a suitor who outbid a rival in a heated moment, but by the more prosaic route of having been cancelled. It's a welcome respite for the endearing sci-fi romance and its winning cast, but it does tend to undermine UPN's argument, which is that this is the type of UPN show that inspires devotion in viewers. Just not enough to keep it on the air at another network the same size...
...even if a user does guess his or her suitor correctly, the website neither recognizes matches nor sends out matching emails...
...considerate lover and, that rarer commodity, a considerate suitor; he doesn't push conquest. In his fashion, Ray is also faithful: when he has erotic daydreams, he thinks only of Mirabelle. But he does not see that her need is of a greater, higher order than his. Besides, Ray is a man. "His caring is a potion," the book's omniscient narrator tells us, "mixed with one part benevolent altruist and one part chimpanzee penis." Is that unusual? Or, for that matter, wrong? No, Martin says. "But it's a ratio. When you're young, the chimpanzee ratio...