Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hear the door bell ring, and you answer it. And you say, puzzled, "And what are you, my little cute thing...
...Petti says that supervisor evaluations represent average satisfaction with worker performance, in the pattern of a bell curve. Support staff get the raises they deserve, Petti asserts...
Holmes a Court was not at the meeting to announce yet another daring takeover but to concede the end of his boldest dream. In just eight minutes, the raider crisply laid out plans for his Bell Resources company to sell -- at a $206 million loss -- most of its 28% stake in Broken Hill Proprietary, Australia's largest company (1987 revenues: $6 billion). Holmes a Court had patiently stalked BHP, a vast mineral and energy conglomerate, for nearly five years, aiming to use the company as the foundation for a global natural- resources empire. His decision to sell was poignant evidence...
...week earlier, complying with a directive from Australian stock exchanges for all companies to disclose the damages they suffered in the crash, Holmes a Court gave a stunning account of his companies' net losses, now estimated at $1 billion. Holmes a Court described how his principal companies -- Bell Group, Bell Resources and J.N. Taylor Holdings -- suffered an avalanche of falling stock prices in their wide holdings in energy, banking, mining and retailing. As the Holmes a Court companies took losses on these investments, their own shares collapsed as well. The stock-market value of the Holmes a Court corporations plunged...
...empire had a critical weakness: it was constructed largely of passive investments in other companies' stock, rather than outright ownership of plants, equipment and other hard assets. Half of the Bell Group's pre-October assets of $1.8 billion, for instance, were made up of corporate shareholdings. "We were overexposed to the world's stock markets," Holmes a Court has conceded. Moreover, since the raider did not own controlling interest in those corporations, he was unable to tap their corporate credit lines to get infusions of new money. Said he: "Our money was tied up without getting cash flow...