Word: swelling
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...They need to re-establish a little bit of momentum" before trimming fat, says Andrew Wood of U.S. investment-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein. But don't expect major weight gain. Unilever first needs "to sort its own problems out," he says. Either way, their bankers' coffers will likely swell. - By Adam Smith...
Phillips attributed the problems to a swell in new voters overwhelming the system, which exposed the problems in the existing registration and absentee ballot processes...
That would take nothing short of a public ground swell, which is why Bush plans to return to many of the techniques that got him re-elected. The Republican National Committee is putting together a war room on the issue, organizing workshops and town halls around the country, placing advocates on regional radio and deploying a rapid-response team in Washington. Bush is also counting on outside organizations. Moore, for instance, is starting a new one called the Free Enterprise Fund, with backing from conservatives on Wall Street and in business. A group called Progress for America, which has close...
...comically feckless crew (led by Willem Dafoe), yearn impotently for a pregnant journalist (Cate Blanchett), hope a visiting fan (Owen Wilson) will turn out to be his previously unacknowledged son, and despise his rival (Jeff Goldblum), who knows how to navigate the modern world and has the swell boat to prove...
...state over for this year, but by early January, Schwarzenegger's administration must come up with a budget to plug what nonpartisan state legislative analyst Elizabeth Hill estimates will be a $6.7 billion deficit for 2005-06. For the 2006-07 fiscal year, Hill expects past borrowing to swell the shortfall to $10 billion...