Word: winterize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Australia was clearly thrilled to be showing off like this. Sydney had been buffed to a gleam for the Games, and a sparkling late-winter sun shone all week. The Today show set up by the opera house to catch sunrises on the harbor and sunsets behind the bridge. Restaurants and hotels filled, athletes sprouted in multicolored warm-up suits, photo ops clogged the botanical gardens. The sunny phrase "no worries," a curious affirmation against doomfulness, was heard over and over, as was a new quintessentially Australian sentiment: " 'Ey, all we 'ave to do is beat Atlanta! Not a very...
...same time, Cohen points out, corporations and investors are also doing well. She expects corporate profits to increase at about a 10% rate this winter. That would be only half the "very robust 20%-plus" rise last winter but still "quite comfortable." And though stock markets suffered a severe shake-out last spring, Cohen thinks their future also looks good. Says she: "The stock market performs well when investors have confidence in the durability and longevity of economic expansion, and we think that's what the situation is likely...
...felon as seasoned as Slobodan Milosevic - and that makes the Serb strongman more likely to play for time, or even start another war somewhere as an excuse to hang on to power. As results poured in Monday from ballot boxes from all over what remains of Yugoslavia, the bitter winter of 1996-97 may be weighing heavily on Milosevic's mind. Weeks of massive street demonstrations in Belgrade had forced him, early in 1997, to concede city hall to the opposition party chosen by the voters, and now it appears that Yugoslavia's voters have once more dealt their president...
...will likely play out like a poker game. Gore, lucky enough to have the Leader of the Free World on his campaign staff, will have to somehow keep a straight face when he says electoral politics had nothing to do with the decision. He's still on record last winter as being opposed to the idea, and he's still got George W. pointing out that the Strategic Oil Reserve was meant for wars and embargoes, not market fluctuations. And speaking of expediency, there's still the precedent of market meddling by an agency - the Department of Energy - that...
...Never mind that heating-oil refineries are already at 95-100 percent capacity, and when winter comes those swing voters' heating bills could be as high as ever. It's obvious that the actual efficacy of the move, being as it won't be determined until after November, played very little part in the decision. Those million barrels a day are meant to affect one thing - market oil prices...