Word: tanked
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...While F&F had plenty in the tank, the week's other wide release, Adventureland, just plain tanked. It finished a sad sixth. Fewer than a million patrons paid to see Superbad director Greg Mottola's reminiscence of an '80s summer he spent working in an amusement park. Apparently most of those who wanted a reverberation of their Superbad vibe stayed home and watched star Seth Rogen, who ubiquitously promoted his next-week's movie, Observe and Report, on Letterman, The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live and quite possibly the Home Shopping Network...
Katinka Barysch is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, an independent London-based think tank...
This is in large part because of how PE firms are structured: they lock up investors' money for a decade and rake in 2% annual fees even when their investments tank. When they borrow money to buy a company, the debt gets stuck on the company's books, not theirs. As a result, most have been able to effectively hold their breath through the turmoil...
...make fun of - skeptics will say that turning out the lights won't make but a light ding in our carbon emissions, and critics will claim it proves that environmentalists really do want to send us straight to the dark ages. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, is holding a counter-protest during the same time period called Celebrate Human Achievement Hour, which will "salute the people who keep the lights on and produce the energy that helps make human achievement possible." (So if you've ever wanted to throw a party for your local coal plant, this...
Others are more sanguine. "It's not an existential crisis, but it is a nuisance," says Hugo Brady, from the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think tank. "Luckily, there are mechanisms to keep things going. The E.U. is to some extent above politics - although that is part of its problem - and officials can pick up the slack if politicians cannot deliver...