Word: rabbit
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...debt analyst at Lehman Bros. in New York City. Suria shot to fame in June with a report that blew the stock to pieces. For the first time, a Wall Street institution proclaimed that Amazon would eventually run out of cash "unless it manages to pull another financing rabbit out of its rather magical hat." The day of reckoning will come in the first quarter of next year, when sales are slower and Amazon goes cap in hand for more cash, as it has in the past. In this more frugal climate, Suria suggests, big Amazon backers like Kleiner Perkins...
...innumerable independent bands on the Web that aren't being written up in the mainstream press and aren't getting played on TV or radio. There aren't enough hours in the day for a single listener to get a handle on all these microbands. Unless you've got rabbit-quick DSL service (most ordinary folks have relatively tortoise-like 56K modems), downloading a song can take half an hour or more. Given that there are many more songs online than there are at your local record store, who has the time--or the bandwidth--to listen...
...black hole and, with a flourish, pull from them equations that look suspiciously like those that govern the will-o'-the-wisp interactions of subatomic particles. What's more, the associate professor of physics at Harvard University can perform the same trick in reverse, effectively concealing the rabbit back inside...
...candidates know how to play rough, and both of them, I suspect, are persuaded that you cannot win without ruthlessness. The Marquis of Queensberry is for losers. George W. Bush imitates his father in almost all things; in 1988 Bush the elder hit Michael Dukakis with a number of rabbit punches - the Willie Horton business, for example...
Funny acts included Dumbo shooting peanuts from his trunk at the female elephants in Dumbo and Tigger toppling Rabbit in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh...