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...READ THE FINE PRINT I invariably read a company's report from back to front. The stuff they don't want us to find is buried in the back--starting with the footnotes. Read about the company's pension plan; if its projected annual rate of return is more than 7.5%, a shortfall could bite into future earnings, and "you should be concerned," says Lehman Bros. accounting expert Robert Willens. Watch for off-balance-sheet liabilities, a fancy term for financial risks that the company hopes will never come home to roost, and for development costs that are capitalized instead...
...that since the first time I went on the Johnny Carson show. From now on, the world's a different place for me because I'm on film with Paul Newman. Paul can do anything he wants. If he wants to call me "kid" and never learn my name, fine. If he wants to do one take and walk away, fine. If he wants to come in with two little lapdogs and talk to them all day long, he could have done that too. Because he's Paul. But here's a guy who's just part of the ensemble...
...guests slowly trickled back to the schooner from their afternoon activities, indolent and relaxed from a day spent in the sun and sea. Soon we set sail again, accompanied by the intoxicating aroma of cooking tuna and roasting potatoes. Dinner was hearty and simple, which was just fine as during those days of utter relaxation I wanted nothing to do with gourmet meals and complicated sauces. After dinner we retreated to the comfortable chairs, pillows and mattresses piled on the foredeck to lose ourselves in the stars and watch the moon set over Selayar's hills...
...federal agency that was supposed to help solve these problems is increasingly at odds with local airport authorities. Baumgartner and others criticize the TSA-run largely by Secret Service veterans with little aviation experience-for cluelessness, inflexibility and a bull-in-a-china-shop approach. "They may be fine folks at the TSA," says Baumgartner, "but they don't know anything about building an airport-security system or running an airport." William Pickle, a former Secret Service official who has just taken over as the TSA's top man in Denver, acknowledges the tensions. "The TSA is trying...
...Over there, it’s a poor country, so people are not always fine,” he says, explaining the ambivalence of the standard responce to “How are you?”—in Creole, it translates as “I’m hanging in there...