• In the first half, WALL-E, a robotic trash collector and compactor, continues to go about his duties after the human presence has been blown away from Earth by billowing waves of noxious dust.

    NEWYORKER: WALL-E

  • More recently, after all Motorola employees received an e-mail from CFO DaveDevonshireDave Devonshire and RuthFattoriRuth Fattori, head of human resources, announcing that there would be severely reduced--if any--bonuses for staff this year, it was Devonshire who was selected to bring the bad news of the poor first half to Wall Street.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • More recently, after all Motorola employees received an e-mail from CFO Dave Devonshire and Ruth Fattori , head of human resources, announcing that there would be severely reduced--if any--bonuses for staff this year, it was Devonshire who was selected to bring the bad news of the poor first half to Wall Street.

    FORBES: Adviser Soapbox

  • For the greater part of the past half-century Wall Street financier Leon Levy has been an optimist.

    FORBES: Self-Employment

  • Or you can leave the bed cover on and just fold down the bottom half of the cab wall, creating a big enclosed space.

    CNN: Chevy Avalanche: Big truck for the real world

  • Half the respondents to a Wall Street Journal poll said they would not purchase H-P products.

    FORBES: Will the Real H-P Please Stand Up?

  • Alonso's initial effort was blocked by the wall but he half-volleyed the rebound unerringly into the bottom corner.

    BBC: Hull 1-3 Liverpool

  • He had to convince local officials to rezone the land from office to residential and build a giant wall, a half-mile long and 200 feet deep, to keep the Mediterranean from seeping into the underground parking garage.

    FORBES: Second Empire

  • Christopher Edward Allingham was only 36 years old, but he had already spent half of his life working on Wall St.

    CNN: [Christopher Edward Allingham]

  • Morgan Chase, have found it hard to break into Wall Street's top half-dozen firms, the bulge bracket.

    ECONOMIST: Germany's biggest bank regroups to storm New York

  • The top ten Wall Street firms will spend half a billion dollars to upgrade their disaster-recovery capabilities.

    FORBES: The Detour Economy

  • Burton Malkiel has been working on and writing about Wall Street for more than half a century.

    FORBES: Burton Malkiel Advises Running From Bonds Into Dividends, Emerging Markets

  • The top ten Wall Street firms will spend half a billion dollars in total to upgrade their disaster-recovery capabilities.

    FORBES: The Detour Economy

  • It is also a compelling portrait of the social and economic changes that have revolutionized Wall Street in the past half century.

    FORBES: Emperor Sandy

  • Typically, half the power they drew from the wall, and sometimes as much as 80%, would be lost in conversion.

    ECONOMIST: How a boring gadget saved $2 billion-worth of electricity

  • The Spitzer pact forces Wall Street to spend almost half a billion dollars over five years for research deemed independent by yet more overseers.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But I had the luckiest place on earth, the Fifth Avenue of real estate on that boat, because my bunk was in a corner, with a foot and half of space between me and the wall.

    WSJ: Chef Jos�� Andr��s on the Call of the Tall Ship

  • After the song, Burton offers up a "one more thing" to the crowd, staff members opening up the back wall to reveal the second half of the room, as a man picks up the guitar at the side of the stage, for an instrumental jam.

    ENGADGET: Re-Reading Rainbow: an interview with LeVar Burton

  • Keisuke Honda smashed his effort into the far corner before Yasuhito Endo, who also hit a post in the second half, curled a fine strike around the wall.

    BBC: Denmark 1-3 Japan

  • But at the same moment Frenchman Laurent Redon and 1996 winner Buddy Lazier became entangled half a lap behind and crashed into the wall, bringing out the yellow flag.

    BBC: Castroneves wins Indy 500

  • Against the wall beside the pool table was a half-size refrigerator jammed with beer.

    NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

  • The city and developer signed the contract stipulating the wall's removal in the first half of February.

    WSJ: In Berlin, Wall Divides Developers, Protesters

  • The Wallabies piled on the pressure and although New Zealand held on bravely, the black wall was finally breached in first-half stoppage time when Ashley-Cooper was played in by Peter Hynes.

    BBC: Australia 24-28 New Zealand

  • That was a selling point for photographers Heather Waraksa and Jonathan Mehring, who arrived at Apple's new Grand Central store in New York and, as such, found themselves leaning against a wall, eating bagels in line a half hour later.

    CNN: Doug Gross,

  • Even if the new edition brings in new money, that will not change the fact that the Wall Street Journal, which contributed about half of Dow Jones's revenues last year, relies on a type of advertising that may never fully return to newspapers.

    ECONOMIST: A new venture for an old paper

  • She came to a stop along the inside wall with a trail of debris covering about half the home straightaway behind her.

    NPR: Edwards Ends Long Drought At Phoenix

  • Despite the grim headlines, some leading women and blacks on Wall Street prefer to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty.

    ECONOMIST: Wall Street

  • Washington Mutual has had an erratic few days, losing more than half of its value in the last week, as Wall Street collapses around it.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "These are just a fraction of what we as consumers spend on soft drinks each year which is almost half a trillion dollars - the total required for species and sites is less than half of what is paid out in bonuses to bankers on Wall street's biggest investment banks, " he explained.

    BBC: Science & Environment

  • Wall Street, which had been hoping for a sixth half-point cut, was disappointed.

    ECONOMIST: Overview

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