Word: facedness
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Faced with ubiquitous signs of global economic meltdown, investors sold stocks in force on Tuesday, dragging the broad market indexes down near the lows reached last November. The Standard & Poor's 500 index, weighed down by financials, fell 4.56%, while the Dow Industrials sank 3.8%, falling to within a fraction...
Dragging the stock market down is a near universal acceptance that this recession is going to be longer and deeper than the consensus thought just three months ago. Late last week, for example, investment firm Credit Suisse lowered the projected operating earnings for S&P 500 companies to $58. It...
If you’ve still got the acrid taste in your mouth from when gasoline prices were at an all-time high or you’ve fallen victim to a housing “crunch,” the Hasty Pudding Theatricals can offer you laughs (and maybe...
But for the first time since 1999, the ballot will also list two self-nominated candidates, who had to petition for over 200 alumni signatures to be considered in the election. Such write-in candidates have historically faced an uphill battle in the voting process. The last self-nominated candidate...
Modern conflicts with sophisticated international involvements—combined with the bitter experiences faced by countries like Sri Lanka during the colonial past—often lead such governments to take extreme precautions to ensure no covert foreign force creeps into their internal politics again. This was evident in Sri...