• The point is that just like a lot of money can be made or lost in a casino in a very short time, a lot of money can be made or lost in Apple stock in a very short time almost every day.

    FORBES: Apple Thrills Like Roulette, Can Make You Just As Broke

  • On a dusty patch of ground now stands rack upon rack of western clothes, made perhaps in China or other parts of Asia but already worn in Europe or America and then given away to charities to be sold, for very little, all over Africa, even in places like Lundazi.

    ECONOMIST: Africa 40 years on

  • As Secretary Clinton made clear today in her testimony -- or at least her initial round of testimony -- and as was made clear in the Accountability Review Board report, there was no delay in response, every asset was brought to bear to try to provide assistance.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • On one of their regular offerings, based in North Carolina, participants are made to cycle, hike or kayak in pursuit of tokens they will then exchange for materials that can be used to make a boat.

    CNN: , for

  • Several allegations made in the FDIC complaint are supported by knowledge of the audit choices PwC made, or did not make, that most likely came from the workpapers, PCAOB inspection findings pertaining to Colonial, and the reluctant but compelling cooperation of PwC itself.

    FORBES: A Tale of Two Lawsuits -- PricewaterhouseCoopers and Colonial Bank

  • The former Soviet republics had very little, if any, decision-making role in taking on the bulk of this crushing debt burden or, for that matter, in the use made of the proceeds of Western borrowings.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Doomsday Scenario: Aspin Nomination Sets Stage For Dellums Chairmanship, Grim Tidings For Defense Community

  • But 2.1m were on the streets, or living in flimsy shacks, with improvised walls made of cardboard or plastic sheeting.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil��s (pre)occupying housing problem

  • She really was the kind of woman that folksingers sang about in those days, or she made herself into that kind of woman: good at growing things and cooking and healing and comforting.

    NEWYORKER: She��s the One

  • Shortfalls, or "underfunded pension liabilities, " need to be made up by employers or, in the case of California, taxpayers.

    WSJ: Andy Kessler: The Pension Rate-of-Return Fantasy

  • Serious collectors keep theirs in folders or envelopes made of acid-free paper.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Among the ranks of the Senate Republican dissenters are moderates like Olympia Snowe of Maine, or members up for re-election in 2008 who live in parts of the country where Democrats made gains in the mid-term elections, like Gordon Smith of Oregon or John Sununu of New Hampshire.

    NPR: Republicans Split on Bush Iraq Plan

  • Hence "the problem" of Rembrandt: the endless debates among scholars as to whether (often well-known, well-loved) works are autograph pictures, collaborations with gifted assistants, "circle of " pieces made in the workshop or by former assistants who had learned to imitate his manner, or "follower of" works produced to satisfy the demand for Rembrandt-type images in his lifetime, by miscellaneous artists.

    WSJ: Rembrandt in America | The Cleveland Museum of Art | A Rembrandt of Our Invention | By Karen Wilkin

  • For all its cosmopolitan ambitions, the governing elite of German business is still made up almost entirely of men in their 50s or 60s, mainly with an engineering background, whose formative experience was growing up in the post-1945 Wirtschaftswunder, where production was king and shareholders were all but invisible.

    ECONOMIST: Deutschland ��ber alles?

  • The impact of the business on people or environment, rather the amount of profit made in a given period measures the success of social business.

    FORBES: On Civil Society

  • Mr. JENKINS: Well, it's interesting that if we look at some of these recent terrorist plots where they have resulted in terrorist violence or where arrests have been made that have prevented acts of terrorism, we find that in many case, local police have as likely a chance of uncovering the events as do national intelligence agencies.

    NPR: NYPD Probes Path of Homegrown Terrorists

  • The media focuses on huge surpluses spent by major corporations or sovereign wealth funds, but a substantial amount of the money being made in places like China or India also accumulates into family networks.

    FORBES: In Ethnic Enclaves, The U.S. Economy Thrives

  • The media focus on huge surpluses spent by major corporations or sovereign wealth funds, but a substantial amount of the money being made in places like China or India also accumulates into family networks.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Secondly, there are "stakeholder" accounts, which invest in a pool or fund made up of a variety of company shares.

    BBC: A child on a beach

  • Obviously the whole issue of environmental integrity on tribal lands is something that too often has slipped through the cracks or decisions have been made in the absence of consultation with the tribes.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Opens Tribal Nations Conference

  • One in six or one in seven of the force may have to be made redundant.

    BBC: Spending Review: Up to 350 Wiltshire Police jobs to go

  • "We believe the comptroller's staff did him a disservice on some of the comments made in this report, which we think misrepresent or just totally get wrong some of the things that are in the budget, " Mr. Cuomo's budget director, Robert Megna, said in a conference call.

    WSJ: Comptroller, Governor at Odds Over Budget

  • Taymor's lawsuit sought half of all profits derived from the sale, license, transfer or lease of any rights in the original "Spider-Man" book along with a permanent ban of the use of her name or likeness in connection with a documentary film that was made of the birth of the musical without her written consent.

    WSJ: Settlement reached in 'Spider-Man' B'way musical

  • The researchers were able to form three types of mutants in the protein, in which one or both of the alpha helices were made more stable than they normally would have been.

    ECONOMIST: Folding stuff

  • In fact, most of the good friends I've made in the past ten or 15 years are women I met in class.

    CNN: The hobby that helped me take flight

  • Women bought most of the products consumed in the home, but were ignorant of how they were made or the economics of their marketing.

    ECONOMIST: Françoise Giroud | The

  • His mission: to spread the word about the virtues of home-grown American fuel made from stuff that normally gets thrown away, or in the case of corn cobs, plowed back into the fields.

    FORBES: Taking A Ride In A Corn-Cob-Powered Truck

  • They were, it was true, almost entirely made of petroleum in some form or another.

    ECONOMIST: Ray Anderson

  • Seeing the trend, BNY Mellon recently has made new acquisitions or investments in a couple of asset management firms.

    FORBES: BNY Mellon Ripe For A Run Above $40 If Managed Assets Grow Faster

  • Yet (again, aside from Sumner) no free-market thinkers or politicians made this argument even in the depths of the 2009 contraction.

    FORBES: Why Are Libertarians Inflation Hawks?

  • One of every two displaced Colombians is unemployed and a similar number live in makeshift homes made of cloth, cardboard or wood, says the Office of the U.N.

    CNN: Guerrilla war displaces millions of Colombians

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