Word: wallful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...place a Greater Serbia. In the past 10 years, he has launched four wars and lost three. He is currently on the verge of losing a piece of real estate held especially dear by Serbs. As Europe's most disruptive dictator since the fall of the Berlin Wall, he bears responsibility for the extermination of 250,000 in Bosnia and Croatia, for the European revival of concentration camps and massacres, for the displacement of millions in Bosnia and Croatia and Kosovo, for the impoverishment and ostracism of his own country...
...have set for his company. "They keep raising them and raising them. And you play that out logically, and at some point they put their guesses so high that they are not really achievable." Dell's first-quarter revenue is growing 38%, a spectacular number for most companies. But Wall Street had been expecting better, and Dell's stock tumbled...
Chen wasn't kidding about her unease over her career. Yan recalls that after a bad film experience Chen would "bang her head against the wall. We'd talk about her trying to go to medical school or do a law degree. But I always said, 'Bullshit, you'll forget it all tomorrow.' And of course she always...
Through something called swap funds, also known as exchange funds, Wall Street has divined a way for some overly concentrated investors to trade one stock that has risen for a basket of stocks of equal value--avoiding any immediate capital-gains tax. A crush of financial firms, including Banker's Trust, Salomon Smith Barney, J.P. Morgan and Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette, are launching swap funds right now. They aren't entirely new. But Congress took a whack at limiting them two years ago, and they're resurfacing with a new look...
...site is quite vertical, and Hadid's architecture is usually characterized by exaggerated horizontal plinths and floating fractured wedges. Her fondness for the stretch is expressed in Cincinnati partly by what she calls "the urban carpet": the street becomes the lobby floor, which slopes gently up and becomes the wall. It's also evident in the long, shallow staircase that slices through the building like a rapier. From this staircase visitors can get fleeting glimpses of the art from unusual perspectives, a pattern that's repeated throughout the gallery, which is punctuated with jagged openings (some bringing in light from...