Word: swath
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...problem stretches far beyond the finance sector. Five of the companies with the highest dollar amount of pension underfunding, according to the report, are Raytheon (underfunded by $1.6 billion), Johnson & Johnson ($1.5 billion), ExxonMobil ($1.4 billion), Macy's ($980 million) and Alcoa ($950 billion). "This is affecting the broad swath of companies that make up the fabric of what we call the 'real economy,'" says Mark T. Williams, a risk-management expert and finance professor at the Boston University School of Management...
...coincidence that Rendell and the Clintons have been stumping on Obama's behalf in the western and central parts of the state, where a vast swath of rural areas and aging industrial towns have earned it the nickname Pennsyltucky. Clinton defeated Obama by racking up votes in this more culturally conservative region, including the suburbs of Pittsburgh, where Obama's ill-advised comments earlier this year about voters being "bitter" and clinging to "guns or religion" still elicit anger. It's also here where McCain will have to beat Obama by a huge margin to have any chance at pulling...
...campaign and this state that is unlike any before it - race. During the seemingly endless primary campaign here last spring, Rendell, a Clinton supporter, drew criticism when he said "some whites are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate." Congressman John Murtha, who represents a rural swath of Western Pennsylvania, put it even more bluntly earlier this month when he called his region "racist" in an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The veteran Democrat later backed off just a bit, noting that the district used to be "really redneck...
...version of the master plan unveiled last night, Harvard’s architects addressed the need for more green space by adding a “Greenway” that runs east-west across the neighborhood and extends to the Charles River. In addition to several small parks, the swath of land may also include an urban farm and an orchard...
...hostile engagements between British and Icelandic fishing fleets and naval vessels, with nets being cut and boats being rammed, ending in the 1970s with an agreement that many British fishermen still blame for limiting their catches. If Brown fails to retrieve British cash from Iceland, a wider swath of the population - all British taxpayers, in fact - will feel the effects this time around. His chancellor, Alistair Darling, promised U.K.-based private investors on Wednesday that the government would cover their full potential losses after IceSave, an Internet subsidiary of Landsbanki that attracted customers with a range of high-interest products...