Word: tides
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...tide turned quickly, though, as the Bulldogs earned their first point at first singles, where the Crimson's Burroughs lost to Adam Mandell in two tiebreakers...
...rising tide lifts all the boats...
...This time it hasn't. The tide of the 1990s is different...
Even Roach of Morgan Stanley thinks a "productivity-led recovery" could bring back the days when a rising tide really did lift all the boats. But he adds a strong caveat: "My darkest fear is of macho corporate managers who will slash and burn, and will not make a true commitment for the longer haul to expand their market share through judicious rebuilding. Then we will have hollow industries that will undermine our competitive advantage over the long haul, and that will be an unmitigated disaster for growth and jobs." Downsizing was and is a painful necessity, but bosses need...
Foreign buyers of all sorts and sources come shopping. Some work for multinational corporations with an eye to cheap supplies. Others are front men for organized crime or outlaw regimes, part of a swelling tide of agents who haunt export harbors on the Baltic Sea and travel the countryside. For help, many turn to Russians skilled in the use of blat (personal connections) and vzyatki (bribes) to oil the gears of the postempire black market...