Word: cynicisms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...biggest impact, though, has come fairly recently. A good example is Wall Street earnings guidance, the issue on which Coke just got real. Some 95% of public companies still provide guidance. But in part because of Buffett's stand, the trickle of dissenters is growing. A cynic might note that this trickle consists mainly of companies that have struggled in recent years. Mickey D's, Ma Bell and Coke may simply be taking Mother's advice: If you can't say something nice, say nothing at all. But others are sure to fall in line. Buffett has long asserted that...
...easy to insist that he is driven by financial considerations above all else. Such an attitude, says actress Fiona-Jane Weston, who attended the protest at St. Paul's Church, is about "knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing" - Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic. But maybe Smith and the ENO board have a point. After all, this is not the first time the company has run into financial trouble. ENO received about €20 million this fiscal year from ace, which accounts for 53% of its funding. Box-office receipts account for 28% and corporate...
...Times of London correspondent in Saigon at the time the French are retreating from Vietnam and the Americans are coming in, full of bravado and a species of idealism. Fowler, with his Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen) and his fondness for opium, is the resident sage and cynic. The subversive tactics of an American friend (Brendan Fraser) stir him to make a fatal decision for reasons both noble and venal...
BILLY WILDER The Cynic of Sunset Boulevard...
...looking angrier by the moment. Each tiny eruption was greeted with a jubilant roar, like a kickboxing crowd hailing a series of withering knee strikes. The lights looked a bit like exploding flares, though there was no hiss or smoke, no sparkling arc back to earth. To a cynic like myself, they looked indisputably man-made. But to the believers?gathered in the tens of thousands along the riverbank?this was the breath of the Naga, the mythical serpent of Buddhist lore that many Thais believe haunts the broad reaches of the Mekong in Nong Khai province...