Word: firm
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...Unity Party ended up neck and neck with the communists, Fatherland-All Russia came in a disappointing third. It was an expression of what Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev described as Russia's split soul: torn between the attraction of anarchy on the one hand and the desire for a firm ruler on the other. Some past elections have demonstrated the anarchic side. This time, though, Russians opted for a ruler...
...least elevated their relationship to the point where she boasted to friends about her "really rich boyfriend." McDermott was certainly a man who knew the market, having worked his way up from entry-level research analyst to CEO of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a boutique investment bank. The firm was on the verge of what would have been his crowning achievement, a $100 million public offering last May. But days before the IPO, the firm canceled the deal when McDermott told his partners he was under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for giving stock tips to a friend...
...because of that infinite shelf space and the millions of square feet of cheap warehouse real estate in Utah or Nevada. "The pure Internet plays don't have nearly the infrastructure cost that off-line plays do," says Mike May, an analyst at Jupiter Communications, an e-commerce research firm in New York City. "A single point of sale can be used to reach an entire country or the entire world." As Jay Herratti, president of Boo.com North America, a sportswear e-tailer, put it, "We could be global from...
...that Schwab has proved that the clicks-and-mortar strategy works, this Christmas season we are seeing that Schwab may be the precursor rather than the exception. Robert Kenzer, CEO of Kenzer Corp., a retail executive-search firm, says retailers will have to do online, off-line and catalog in order to survive "or have strategic alliances that permit them to do all three." Companies such as Circuit City and eToys' competitors KB Toys and Toys "R" Us are proving they're not out of the game. "Clicks-and-mortar has a lot of inherent advantages," says Seema Williams...
...companies don't always manage it, but you've got to give them points for effort. Webvan boasts that its 330,000-sq.-ft. warehouse is so meticulously organized that no packer has to walk more than 19 1/2 ft. in search of a product. Now, post-IPO, the firm is set to build 26 warehouses across the country at a cost of $1 billion...