Word: swooned
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...forge a deep friendship, and a man who tests that bond. This film, though, is so saturated in the sad glamour of their love that style becomes substance. The moving camera, the gorgeous homes and gardens of Suzhou, the handsome people with complex urges?they all seem to swoon in the telling of a story about Jade (radiant Japanese star Rie Miyazawa), a Kunqu Opera singer who marries into a noble house and falls into a near-lesbian relationship with her new master's mannish cousin Rong (Joey Wong, the premier ghost diva of '80s Hong Kong cinema). They...
...same sense of imminent threat, in fact, overhangs the economies that the summiteers are determined to bring into trade harmony. The main reasons are the abrupt slowdown of the huge U.S. economy and the stock-market swoon that has destroyed more than $3 trillion in paper wealth. The full effects of the slowdown have not spread to Canada and Mexico, the U.S. partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement, but they are still evident. In South America, Argentina has been engulfed by a paralyzing financial crisis that threatens the cohesion and possibly the fate of the Southern Cone trading...
G.O.P. legislators began moving that way last week. As the stock market continued to swoon amid more negative economic news, Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, proposed handing taxpayers a $60 billion rebate in 2001. It's not clear what form that might take: the IRS could simply send out rebate checks, or, even quicker, the government might lower the amounts automatically withheld from workers' pay. Rebates would probably be treated as taxable income, which would reduce both their economic clout and public relations appeal. Evenly divided among the country's 200 million adult taxpayers, they could...
Krispy Kreme's doughnuts have outperformed microchips, routers and 10-gigabit lasers since the Winston-Salem, N.C., chain went public at $21 a share last April--just as the NASDAQ started its swoon. The company has become so hot since the offering that it plans to quit NASDAQ in May for the industrial-age New York Stock Exchange...
...European growth will be technology. "Europe in its innovative drive is where the U.S. was three or four years ago," said Lipp. True, the technology stocks on markets like Germany's Neuer Markt and France's Nouveau Marche have been taken down hard recently in the global stock swoon, but Lipp calculates that 75% of these companies still have solid business models. He reported that American executives were also voting with their feet, and sizing up bargain-price European tech firms for acquisitions...