Word: thresholds
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Adolf Hitler or the incarnation of absolute evil; this is how future generations will remember the all-powerful Fuhrer of the criminal Third Reich. Compared with him, his peers Mussolini and Franco were novices. Under his hypnotic gaze, humanity crossed a threshold from which one could see the abyss...
...West Africa. This diversification acts as an insurance policy against supply disruptions. The growing role of natural gas in the overall energy mix provides a further buffer. Information technology has also allowed the industry to search for oil and make a profit at $15 per bbl., about half the threshold of just a decade ago. For example, the industry has adapted the computer-visualization techniques Hollywood used in movies like Jurassic Park for 3-D seismic visualization of potential reserves deep underground...
...important dates: the old rate applies to assets sold before May 7; the new rate applies to assets sold after July 28. In between, for some reason, you get a freebie of sorts: the 20% rate on assets held just 12 months, not the new long-term threshold of 18 months. You can see why good record keeping is important...
...House aide. Two years later, in The American President, Michael Douglas is a widower, which means his bumpy courtship of lobbyist Annette Bening is within the rules. All the same, by letting us follow the happy couple into the First Bedroom, even that White House-friendly movie crossed another threshold. On the other side of that threshold were movies like Wag the Dog. And still to come, if it ever gets produced, is Sacred Cows, with a script by the unblushing Joe Eszterhas, writer of Basic Instinct and Showgirls, about a President caught in sexual congress with...
NAGANO, Japan: Does marijuana enhance the performance of a snowboarder? A slim majority in the International Olympic Committee believes it does, and voted yesterday to strip Canadian Ross Rebagliati of his gold medal after he tested slightly above the International Ski Federation?s threshold. But the Court of Arbitration of Sport overturned that decision today, ruling that Rebagliati would keep his medal...