Word: winded
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...charges companies will be making this year to get devalued assets off their books and you wind up with a projection of $48.52 a share for the collective bottom line of the S&P 500, and a p/e of nearly 20. That means stocks would have to fall considerably more before they appeared cheap...
...since the beginning of September. (By contrast, the S&P Index lost about 25% of its value over the same time period.) The cost of oil, which has driven much of the investment in alternative energy in recent years, has halved since the summer. And new green industries, like wind farms and solar-panel factories, are no less affected by the credit crunch than any other business...
...global recession will clearly take some air out of the green-investment bubble. FPL Group, the largest operator of wind power in the U.S., just announced that it would cut back on new turbines, while Germany's Schott Solar, one of the oldest solar-power companies in the world, pulled out of a planned $900 million initial public offering. But popping the bubble might not be a bad thing if the tougher economy forces the clean-tech industry to make better use of its resources. It may emerge even stronger from the crisis. "Change is good for start...
...time, and at times…[it was] knowing how to sail on the Charles,” Wareham said. Skipper Watson and crew Wareham navigated tricky conditions admirably on their way to a first-place finish in the A division. “We had some very crazy wind which I think intimidated the other teams,” Watson said. “Both Emily [Lambert] and I, we weren’t intimidated by it, and we took advantage of our familiar waters and sailed well.”The pair placed outside...
...executed by the violins. After the sound of the assembly grew to a roar, the orchestra launched. The strings propelled the machine with driving triplets, and the entire ensemble shifted and swelled together as if impelled by an unrelenting force. The violins’ harmonics returned like a metallic wind, and the cellos and brass played a majestic theme with soaring eloquence. The united orchestra concluded the piece with a resounding, affirming chord. Igor Stravinsky’s “Symphony in Three Movements” was next, continuing the feeling of locomotion that “Flying Machine?...