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...MOVIE Bull Durham, a baseball comedy so deft it manages to make even Kevin Costner hilarious...
...bull--from your business writing, that is. Don't even try to "leverage synergies" or "incentivize" employees if you're using Deloitte Consulting's new Bullfighter software, designed to make business documents more readable. Bullfighter works like a spell checker in either Microsoft Word or PowerPoint and assigns documents a score based on sentence complexity and the use of some 350 "bullwords." Using Bullfighter, Deloitte found that among companies in the Dow Jones industrials, those that spoke plainly in shareholder letters and other communications outperformed those that loaded up on jargon. Bullfighter is available free...
Those who send spam for a living contend that some vigilantes, in their antispam fervor, take it too far. "I have had death threats against my family," complains Robert (Bubba) Catts, a former used-car salesman and professional bull rider from Shreveport, La. Catts, who runs a 10 million--message-a-day direct-marketing business and clears up to $700,000 a year, was exposed when his address and phone number were listed, along with those of 179 other "top spammers," on the British-based website Spamhaus.org...
...signaling a recovery in the broader economy, but not a return to the bull market of the 1990s," Codogno cautions. So keep that exuberance rational. Pole Position Shifts Again Maybe it's time to hire a temp. After Poland's Prime Minister Leszek Miller yanked away economic control and transferred it to economy minister Jerzy Hausner, Grzegorz Kolodko became the second Finance Minister to quit during Miller's troubled 20-month administration. Kolodko warned that Hausner would destroy attempts to control deficits - jeopardizing euro membership. Some analysts, already spooked by Poland's shortfalls, agreed. "It's a mixed blessing," says...
Industry analysts say insurers' investment losses, not just jury awards, are behind the crisis. In bull markets, insurers count on investment income to offset underwriting losses; that ended when the 1990s' stock bubble burst. Although malpractice insurers make only about 20% of their investment income from stocks, the losses were steep and came in tandem with low bond yields...