Word: firm
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Harvard had firm control of the game at that point and junior goaltender Oliver Jonas, making just his second start of the season, had to make only five saves in the opening period...
...career, teaching, death and resurrection of one extraordinary man. Many modern scholars, however, have tended to see them as propaganda, as campaign biographies--documents that contain fragments of actual history, but history so shaped and transformed by faith as to require caution in the reader who seeks firm fact...
Advertisers hope such TV-PC shackups will ultimately allow them to direct players to online deals or to synch TV commercials with click-to-buy options. With a traditional commercial, says Aram Sinnreich, an analyst with Internet research firm Jupiter Communications, "the most the advertiser could hope for is to eventually send the user to the store." But webRIOT's online surfer-viewers are virtually at the store today, and the future implications make advertisers salivate. webRIOT is already selling on-air and online ads as a package...
...fairness to the analysts (most long gone from the firm's surviving entity, Lehman Bros.), had they concocted a decade as fruitful as this one turned out to be, they would have been dismissed as shameless touts. And they did get a few things right, including a national budget surplus and an enduring expansion without much inflation. But most enlightening by far is that the 57 stocks in their portfolio walloped the S&P 500 over 10 years, proving again that patience--not brilliance--is the way to prosper in the stock market...
...Broadview is a leading global investment bank focused on the information technology, communications and media industries worldwide. The firm assists clients with mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and private financings. It is also a private equity investor in these industries in the U.S. and Europe. Over the last 25 years, Broadview has grown to become the world's largest mergers and acquisitions investment bank of its kind, operating across the United States, Europe and Asia...