Word: tin
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...Fortunately, I was playing some of my best squash all year, so I was able to keep the ball nice and tight up front—tight to the wall, tight to the tin,” Broadbent said...
...Under Pressure Moody's may cut the A3 rating on David "Bowie Bonds" - which the rock star sold for $55 million six years ago, backed by future royalties. Moody's blamed the global music-sales slump, but may have just had another listen to the Thin White Duke's Tin Machine...
...tanked. If they poach a rival label's star, it could start a literal blood feud. Oh, and neither they nor anybody else in the record business knows how to make money anymore. The series is called Platinum, but for these mini-moguls, the business is looking more like tin...
...Michael Jackson of world leaders--to succeed with nuclear blackmail? Why reward the Iranians for their support of Hizballah? Fair points, all. But there is a problem: the current American policy of nonrecognition isn't working, and it may well be counterproductive. "What's the hardest job for a tin-pot dictator in the information age?" asks Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Keeping his people isolated from the world. Why should we be making life easier for Fidel Castro or Kim Jong...
...last time. When the accounts were tallied at the end of the Gulf War, the U.S came as close to breaking even as any nation at war is likely to do. In the 1990s, James Baker, then the Secretary of State, flew hither and yon rattling a tin cup and looking for contributions to the cost of battle. Saudi Arabia ponied up $16.8 billion, Kuwait $16 billion. Japan, which 12 years ago thought it was about to be a superpower, gave $10.7 billion, while a grateful, newly unified Germany gave another $6.6 billion. All in all, the Pentagon eventually...