Word: boatful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plying that trade on Wall Street as a corporate raider, even making a run at Walt Disney. In 1992 he made a different play, buying most of the junk bonds of yacht builder Carver, which had used the high-priced debt to gobble up a portfolio of boat brands and got into deep trouble when recession hit. When Carver's owners called Jacobs to negotiate with their new partner, he told them, I don't think you understand; you're out. He had spent $27 million to control $150 million in assets...
...Rupert Murdoch; his Fox Sports Net allied with boat manufacturer (and onetime Disney corporate raider) Irwin Jacobs for its weekly FLW Outdoors Tour sponsored by Wal-Mart. Comcast, the top U.S. cable firm, plays up fishing on its Outdoor Life Network. OLN, which just bought rights to NFL games, might expand to challenge ESPN after its ratings spike from Tour de France finals...
Olsen believes Point is an exception, and despite the gift bags, he's right. The weekend retreat was packed with anodyne activities such as a boat ride to twee Mackinac Island. Lancaster spends an inordinate amount of energy pairing each scholar with a career-appropriate mentor. The mentors are accomplished and tend to be wealthy--a hedge-fund manager, a university president, movie people--and all undergo background checks...
...mean, Jigga has a line in there where he says “How can you falter / When you’re the rock of Gibraltar? / I had to get out the boat / So I could walk on water.” I’m no rocky outcropping of any kind...
Back home, she was telling Hattier, there was a boat on the steps of the athletic center, and the parking garage had imploded and covered the cars with pink fuzz. Hattier, whose Lakeview home near the infamous 17th Street Canal was all but destroyed, carved into a grapefruit half...