Word: bub
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...based Animation Bridge. "Now, I don't have to sell India. I can start selling my company straight away." Because of globalization, cultural differences that affect production values?the look and feel of programs?are rapidly disappearing, too. "Ten years ago, when Bugs Bunny said, 'What's the hubbub, bub?,' most Indians would not have got it," says Nilesh Sardesai, creative director at Crest. "But today, they do," because Indian society has opened to foreign influences...
...THAT'S MS. BITCH TO YOU, BUB...
...Marks, chairman of Oaktree Capital Management. "Buyout firms were able to purchase venerable U.S. icons in the '80s because they could borrow 20 times their money," he notes. (Remember those "highly confident" letters, as in, "I'm highly confident I can borrow the money to take over your company, bub," that Milken and pals used so effectively to terrorize CEOs?) "If you wanted to buy a company for $10 billion, you could probably do it on $400 million in equity. You can't do that anymore. Today you get maybe 3 1/2 times your equity investment--not 20 times...