Word: unravelled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TIME president Eileen Naughton, along with sciences editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, organized a conference in Williamsburg, Va., to address the issue. Co-sponsored by ABC News and supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the summit called together 400 leaders in the medical, corporate and public-policy fields to unravel how Americans got themselves into such a fix and how to get out of it. Last week the American Diabetes Association named Naughton, along with childhood nutritionist Christina Economos and professor of nutrition Miriam Nelson, its Women of Valor for 2005. Said Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of The Robert Wood...
...January-February run in which viewership swelled with each Tuesday, 8 p.m. airing. Why do people watch? Maybe to cringe, learn or revel with the occasional winner, whose businesses have included tailor-made clothes for women, beanbag-like hammocks, and mushrooms. Just as in real VC handshakes, deals can unravel during postshow due diligence. There's a Clay Aiken effect too. Like the Idol loser who flourished, Dragon rejects have found cash elsewhere. Dragons' Den looks ripe for the U.S., venture capital's home. Sony is talking with a U.S. network, rumored to be Discovery. --By Mark Halper
...movies, “The Amityville Horror” mines the collective tropes of all B horror (without the X factor that can induce sleazy fun). Fleeing from danger, the family runs up the stairs, only facilitating their capture. In the course of a drive from one attempt to unravel the mystery, it is suddenly a dark and stormy night. After escaping danger, it is daylight and sunny again...
...even he can only unravel, he cannot explain. Before the war, reports the author, Haile Selassie had set about turning his country into a modern nation, hoping to learn, as Japan had quickly done, from Europe and America. Restored to his throne, however, he did less to open his country to the future than to close it within the past, preserving outworn traditions, and his own tenure, long after their usefulness had passed...
...given a second chance at life, he can’t seem to ditch his self-destructive bent, courting danger as a freelance demon-hunter and smoking himself to lung cancer. Now, facing death a second time, he agrees to help the lovely but pushy detective Angie (Rachel Weisz) unravel her sister’s suicide...