Word: behemoths
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Gaghan, Baer and Baer's then 13-year-old daughter Charlotte met up in Nice. Within a few hours, they were relaxing on the yacht of a former Fatah intelligence officer. Then a representative of the Carlyle Group, the global investment behemoth, anchored next to them. "It kept getting crazier and crazier," says Baer. "You could see Gaghan beginning to frame a picture." Part of the insanity was the disconnect between Baer and his old associates. "I'm an ex-bureaucrat," says Baer. "I have no money. I got a $70,000 advance for my book--which in their world...
...N.F.L. vs. Sominex Pro football has become the 60-yd. game as conservative teams trudge (one-two- three, kick) between the red zones. Teams settle for wussy little field goals (up 47% this year) instead of going for big manly touchdowns (up only 12%). And once again the behemoth National Conference is headed for lopsided victory in another Stupor Bowl. So why would the Fox network want to pay $1.58 billion for four years of this No-Fun League...
...revenues come from non-fund, fee-related businesses like the brokerage business, where we are a significant player." Indeed, Lange is expected to emulate Lynch's method of mixing up the portfolio with some smaller companies. Even with the fund having lost half its assets, it remains a behemoth, which leaves Lange confronting the same hurdle that tripped up Stansky (and even Lynch in the very end): with so much money to invest he will be unable to buy enough shares of a hot small company to make much of dent on the fund's overall performance...
...which would be formally subpoenaed a few months later because the company controlled my computer-written notes and e-mails--fought the order to protect the principle of source confidentiality. We lost, and in early August 2004 we were both facing contempt. For Time Inc., part of the global behemoth Time Warner, that meant a fine; for me, jail...
When I sat down alone last Sunday at Annenberg, I spotted the behemoth that is the Sunday Boston Globe lying nearby. I wasn’t going to turn down any opportunity to seem busy in the eyes of judgmental passing freshmen, and I found a piece on a common, yet intriguing, subject of the Globe: trashing Harvard. In the opening paragraph of Christopher Shea’s article “Secret Societies: Can the Ivy League’s Big Three live down their history of discrimination?” Shea relates an anecdote about bigoted Harvard admissions...