Word: casefuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strict demands are often difficult to meet when operating with tight spaces, tight budgets, and, in the case of America's oldest university, 363 years of architectural history...
However, the Food Lion case represents at best a Pyrrhic victory for the American press. Public confidence in the news media, as evidenced by the multi-million-dollar jury verdict, is lower than any newspaper or television network would like to admit. Tactics that skirt or violate the law will buy no friends among a public already quick to identify bias in reporters and dismiss their reports. The press occupies too important a position in the democratic process to be complacent towards this ambient distrust; perceptions of a biased, unethical or irresponsible press will only encourage the public...
That's still the case. But a shift is under way, one that has highlighted Berkshire's operating performance, and is forcing Wall Street to change the way it looks at the stock. Buffett has been buying more whole companies than company shares in recent years. Just last week he signed a deal to buy all of Jordan's Furniture, a New England retailer with $250 million in annual sales. His biggest deals, though, have been in insurance, starting with auto insurer Geico in 1996 and then the $22 billion acquisition of reinsurer General...
...Oracle of Omaha" lost it? Please. He suffers from technophobia and has thus missed out on a big part of what's been driving the stock market. Meanwhile, those big-brand names he loves have been laggards. But it's hard to make the case that in the very long term--and Buffett believes in holding for life--stocks like Gillette and Coke won't come back...
...Still, Israeli prosecutors point out that the sentence is one of the harshest ever given to a minor in that country (Sheinbein was 17 at the time of the murder). And it's likely that Sheinbein can never go home again: Maryland prosecutors say they will press a case against him if he ever returns...