Word: ways
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Vojislav Kostunica gained people's confidence in a peaceful, democratic and legitimate way. LYUBOMIR T. GRUYITCH Belfort, France...
...That's how strong we are. And because of that, we are about to be rewarded. While all of unemployed America spent eight hours watching a Ryder truck filled with ballots travel at the speed limit across Florida, one brave woman in Los Angeles saw that truck as a way to bring joy to this chad-torn country. Or at least to make some cash...
...stock markets with casinos, with brokers as thinly disguised bookies. Guess what? In Britain, at least, some bookies are now acting like brokers and taking wagers on the directions of stock markets, an exercise called spread betting. The fad is rapidly gaining converts among serious investors as an innovative way to play markets, though a lot of others remain, well, skeptical...
Until very recently, German film companies had money to burn, and most of that found its way to California. Last year 12 relatively unknown German film-distribution and production companies tossed their shares out onto the local stock market and reeled in more than $3 billion in IPO capital. They used that war chest to gobble up strategic chunks of the worldwide filmmaking and distribution industry, and many of those chunks are shriveling rapidly. Companies with names like Intertainment and Helkon Media ran rings around established German players like Kirch Media and Bertelsmann, which, perhaps wisely, stayed...
...into high gear. But the newcomers are not fazed. "Movies like The Matrix were in that deal," Koenig says. "Kirch and Bertelsmann have a tremendous library of films, but they will still need to put up blockbusters from time to time when the public stations run something big." Either way, a wedge exists between the big old German boys and Hollywood's hot new indie producers...