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...control last Tuesday, Rick Neely could only hold on tight. Neely, the interim chief executive of Beyond.com a struggling software seller, had 200,000 options priced at $7 a share riding on every lurch. Last April, when Beyond.com stock hit $37, such options would have been worth $6 million--chump change by dotcom standards but far better than last week's figure. With Beyond.com down to $3.75, his options were "under water"--worthless. "The drop this week was so dramatic, you can't even comprehend it," says Neely, who took over in January after the previous CEO quit. "Everyone...
...what all the fuss is about the bachelor on Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? In today's economy a few million is chump change. How do I snag the guys with the Bill Gates bucks...
...visits is to raise money for expensive TV and radio spots, Gore on Sunday proposed that they abstain from the airwaves. Bradley dismissed the idea with the "yo' mama" of today's politician: "It sounds to me like you're having trouble raising money." Can "Meet me after school, chump" be far behind...
...border and to warehouses in California or Texas. There, Cali cartel employees would reclaim the goods, move them to major retailing hubs like Manhattan and Los Angeles and wholesale them to distributors. The Colombians pocketed a chunk of the wholesale and retail markups. The Mexicans risked their necks for chump change...
When I was in middle school, a friend of mine and I realized that if we asked everyone we knew for a quarter, and did this day after day, we could make for ourselves five, ten dollars a week--no chump change to a couple of seventh-graders. The plan worked great for about four days. Then everybody realized what we were on to, and the donations quickly--and deservedly--dried up. And it's not because our friends and peers were heartless elites. It's not because they had ideological objections to giving money to people. It's because...