Word: wente
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...with bankruptcy restructuring becoming a serious topic of conversation among media owners in 2008. Hearst warned that it might have to shutter its Seattle and San Francisco newspapers, while E. W. Scripps closed the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News in February. The owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune went into bankruptcy, and one of the last African American dailies, the Chicago Defender, converted to a weekly publishing cycle. Two of satellite radio's pioneers - Sirius and XM - merged to avoid mutual failure, along with 42 mergers and acquisitions among consumer magazines. Stock for General Electric, which owns NBC Universal...
...Taught himself calculus in high school because his school did not offer the course. He went on to score a 1590 out of 1600 on his SAT. Bernanke also played the alto saxophone...
...there will be Senators who cannot resist the urge to spend days in front of cameras questioning how some of the taxpayer's money went into the hands of people who may or may not have deserved it. Afterward they can spend the evenings in their offices smoking expensive cigars and sipping cognac...
...effectively in the first quarter, and that put us in a hole that we never really were able to dig ourselves out of,” Farrar said.The squad cut the lead to 8-5 in the second quarter. The teams traded three goals apiece before the Hawks went on a 5-2 run to end the game.“We just couldn’t quite close the gap,” Farrar said. “You cannot allow botched counterattacks to result in an easy goal the other way. The Hartwick players are experienced, very good...
Meanwhile, because of the new U.S-Iraq security agreement that went into effect on Jan. 1, a first batch of 1,500 inmates were released from Camp Bucca last month, at a rate of about 50 a day. The marked improvement in security across Iraq has meant that more detainees are being released than captured. Last year, 18,600 low-threat inmates were freed from Bucca, while only half of that figure were taken in. Of those released, 497 were transferred to the Iraqi government...