Word: swollenness
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...doesn't compare to the devastation in 1998, when 4,000 people perished. As the weather improved at the end of the week, it seemed that disaster would be averted. But rains predicted on the Yangtze's upper reaches this week could send another surge of water into the swollen river...
...chart), its balance sheet, its "now," was imploding. At the end of 1999, the company claimed $10.3 billion in current assets and $30.3 billion in current liabilities and long-term debt. By year-end 2001, current assets had shrunk to $9.2 billion, while current and long-term debt had swollen to $39.2 billion. Graham liked companies whose current assets were at least twice their current liabilities. This measure, called the current ratio, tells you the working-capital cushion a company has at its disposal. Graham also believed that long-term debt should not exceed working capital. WorldCom's working capital...
...Being a gifted populist artist as well as (his word) a "tittenfilmer," Meyer didn't simply display acres of swollen flesh; he vigorously tilled that fertile field. His top-heavy starlets grunted and hove in aerobicized ecstasy, exhorting their pale male swains to "Strap me on!" Meyer's oeuvre was all about sex: getting it, revering it, suffering for it, joking about it and, mostly, staring at it. He achieved what, John Berger has written, is the essence of cinema: Men looking at women. Women with pontoon protuberances...
...nephews. Wataru Yoshizumi's "Marmalade Boy" and Osamu Tezuka's "Astro Boy" not only provide age-appropriate entertainment, but a window into another culture. These stories, filled with innocence, humor and wonder, will make girls and boys consume them with glee, until the books become dog-eared and swollen with rain. Be sure and keep extra copies for yourself...
...pulled in nearly $1 billion, with $161 million in profit, at the global box office. But in an industry where you are what you drive, perception is important. The paucity of awards, the firings, the closing of glitzy Talk magazine (which Miramax co-funded), the bouncing release date and swollen budget of Martin Scorsese's $95 million Gangs of New York, as well as dismal showings by its TV division and two recent box-office duds, Kate & Leopold and The Shipping News, all indicate that Miramax may have finally come to the end of an unparalleled winning streak...