Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, this pace of dealing has not been seen since the 1980s. "Even years down the road, we shall look back on the first quarter of 1999 as the turning point in Italian finance, when we started on the road to change and moved much closer to the American model," says Giovanni Grimaldi, fund manager at investment company Primegest in Milan...
...banking, hailed his plan as "the best possible for the French banking system," but Societe Generale and Paribas rejected the offer as unfriendly. Fighting to save their original merger, the two takeover targets promised an additional $280 million in savings to their shareholders, bringing the total to $1 billion, closer to Pebereau's pledge of $1.4 billion in "synergies" at the new bank...
...investors, Warshavsky is diversifying into myriad online properties, including a gambling site, a psychic site and a site prescribing Viagra. He has often repeated his mantra of aspiring to be the Sumner Redstone of New Media (referring to the chairman of giant Viacom), but as it stands, he remains closer to being the Internet's Larry Flynt...
...There's Something About Mary FUTURE FILM Stuck on You AGE DIFFERENCE: Peter, 42, is one year older FUN FAMILY FACT: Their parents did not let them watch television RECURRING MOTIFS: Lewd sight gags HOW CLOSE ARE THEY? "The Cumberland, R.I.-born brothers are close in age--and even closer in their sense of humor." --USA Today...
...just a nonsense phrase that sets two little girls named Lucy and Bea (Carrie Mullan and Bella Riza) to giggling. Certainly it doesn't catch the patient, tender tones of this gently exotic movie or the spirit of the girls' mum, Julia (Kate Winslet). "Sweetly addled" comes closer to the mark. Or maybe "daftly dreamy...