[00:01]thumb
[00:02]It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA
[00:07]cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers
[00:12]thumb through their phone directories.
[00:16]numb
[00:17]Perhaps I am merely numb at the image of our former
[00:20]Labour prime minister as grinning ambassador for another
[00:24]LVMH company - De Beers diamonds - which was
[00:28]implicated by the UN in the diamond wars in the Congo.
[00:33]dwarf
[00:35]According to Time magazine this would dwarf both
[00:38]the amount Goldman executives gave to charities in 2008
[00:43]($130m) and the amount residing in its own charitable
[00:47]foundation ($200m).
[00:51]Wharf
[00:53]In November, Roy Jhuboo told Amateur Photographer
[00:57]magazine how a squad of officers arrived in two police
[01:01]vans and swooped on him while he was taking pictures of
[01:06]Canary Wharf in the London Docklands.
[01:12]endow
[01:14]Carver once said it was possible "to write about
[01:17]commonplace things and objects using commonplace
[01:20]but precise language and endow those things - a chair,
[01:24]a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring -
[01:29]with immense, even startling power" .
[01:34]widow
[01:36]Ozu brought his delicate minimalist technique to
[01:40]bear on the story of three middle-aged businessmen
[01:44]matchmaking for the widow and daughter of their closest friend.
[01:50]sovereign
[01:52]What they have in common are governments that lack
[01:55]the capacity, the will, or both to rule. They are unable to
[01:59]exercise what is expected of sovereign governments-
[02:02]namely, control over what goes on within their own territory.