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First, some background: private equity refers to what in the 1980s was called the leveraged buyout (LBO). LBO artists such as Henry Kravis and Carl Icahn borrowed lots of money on the junk-bond market built by financier Michael Milken and used it to finance takeovers - sometimes hostile ones - of struggling corporations. During the recession of the early 1990s, the LBO business faltered, and many predicted its demise. But buyout funds re-emerged under the more genteel moniker private equity, eschewed hostile takeovers, reliably outperformed the S&P 500 and grew to be a far bigger force than they ever...
...real question is, Are we going to have a huge deficit with investment or a huge deficit without investment?" said Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, emerging from the meeting. "Those are my words, not [Obama's], but I'm kind of summarizing what the argument is here. If you eliminated his investments, you'd find the deficit would still be 80% or 90% of what it would be otherwise with his investment." In other words, since Washington is going to rack up massive deficits, it may as well go all in and get some long-term bang...
...past few years, Carl Anglesea gave about $400 each year to charity. But he lost his job as a software developer in August, and since then Anglesea, 54, of Chuluota, Fla., hasn't given a dime. What he has done, though, is triple his hours as a volunteer AARP tax counselor helping people fill out tax forms. "I'd like to give cash, but I can't," he says. "So I'm committing to more hours as a substitute...
...controversial techniques if it had not been for explicit legal guidance from the Bush Administration. "The guy doing the interrogations - he did it knowing that the CIA wouldn't have asked him to do it unless it was cleared all the way back ... to the White House," says Carl Ford, an ex-CIA hand who headed the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 2001-03. (See "Top 10 Secret Service Code Names...
...like everyone else but are trying to add a factor in there to add an edge,” he says.And to those who claim that focusing so intently on statistical analysis detracts from the more lyrical aspects of athletics, Harvard Professor of Statistics and Faculty Advisor to HSAC Carl Morris provides a response.“I feel that a lot of people feel passion about sports because of the statistics,” Morris says. “All these numbers tell stories.”For proponents of the quantitative approach to sports, finding new numbers...