Word: winded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Even in the World Trade Center, which had complicated escape routes and had been attacked once before, preparation levels were abysmal, we now know. Fewer than half the survivors had ever entered the stairwells before, according to the NIST report. Thousands of people hadn't known they had to wind through confusing transfer hallways to get down...
...must improve the performance and economics of renewable-energy technologies (those using sunlight, biomass, wind, and so on), in order to expand the share of energy needs that they can meet...
...proposed buyout also has some investors scratching their heads. Wind, with 12 million subscribers, is Italy's third-largest mobile-phone service, but has never made a profit. While about ?7 billion of the total ?12.2 billion valuation is debt that's likely to be refinanced as part of the deal, the acquisition is expensive...
...doesn't fit," acknowledges Sawiris - at least not for now. He plans to slot Wind more comfortably into his portfolio by wringing better returns out of the company, which lags far behind its two Italian competitors, TIM and Vodafone, in the amount of revenue it derives from each customer. But Sawiris says he's expecting a continuing consolidation of the mobile-phone industry, and is trying to position himself for the future. For a time, Wind and Orascom would remain entirely separate entities. But the two operations could eventually be put together. "My vision in five or eight years...
...West Bend, Wis., bought a shirt at the local Goodwill store and found $2,000 stuffed in the pocket. That's pretty amazing--$2,000 stuffed in the pocket. The more amazing part: How did one of Tom DeLay's old shirts wind up in Wisconsin?" --JAY LENO...