Word: thai
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...city guide is a program that runs on a handheld PDA, such as a Palm or a Pocket PC, and works like an electronic travel guide. You download it from the Web, install it on your PDA, and the next time you need to find the nearest Thai food or Irish pub or French boutique, you whip it out and look up the location. Suddenly, you're the guy who knows what's going on. You're an instant hipster. (Not that PDA and hipster are phrases that necessarily belong in the same paragraph...
...short, it's October again, and investors are behaving like idiots again. This time last year it was the Y2K bug; the year before, presidential impeachment and the collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital; the year before that, the plunging Thai baht and Asian contagion. None of those crises proved catastrophic to U.S. stocks...
Lincoln Park itself, just blocks away, is a lovely urban oasis on the edge of Lake Michigan, with a zoo and a new nature museum. The bustling Lincoln Park neighborhood has movies, shopping, and restaurants that serve everything from tapas to Thai. The Windy City B and B is only two miles from downtown's North Michigan Avenue--known to serious shoppers as the Gold Coast--not to mention the Art Institute, the Sears Tower and the theater district www.Chicago-inn.com...
...Thai government is modifying their treatment recommendation to be based on what this study shows," Mofenson said...
With 30,000 outlets around the world, Tricon dwarfs Heinecke's Minor Group. Heinecke has never been afraid, however, to rumble with heavyweights. In 1998 he rallied Thai shareholders in the Regent Bangkok hotel to resist a takeover attempt by U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs. Goldman was only able to increase its stake from 34% to 40%, while the remainder stayed with Heinecke and his Thai allies. He believes he will eventually gain majority control...