Word: flips
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...flip side: if the company can't find investment opportunities for all that cash, then why not hand it over to shareholders? ExxonMobil already gives its investors a hefty payout: last year it returned some $15 billion in the form of dividends and share buybacks. The company recently increased its dividend 7% and announced that it would accelerate its share buybacks by $1 billion a quarter, to $3.5 billion. At that rate, ExxonMobil could repurchase some $14 billion in stock by year-end. That's no small number, yet the company has the capacity to share even more...
...Yale and Cornell had an incredible race,” said senior varsity six-seat Dave Stephens. “That’s anyone’s race—a coin flip...
...flip-flop of monumental proportions. After failing to uncover Saddam Hussein’s arsenal of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration changed its tune. No longer were weapons of mass destruction (WMD) the causus belli. Instead, Iraq had been invaded with “regime change”—the violent overthrow of Saddam’s Ba’athist dictatorship—as the goal. Critics scoffed at the time at ex post facto change of objective, but now, just over two years after President Bush...
After all, nobody likes a flip-flopper...
...Mardan disguised as a burqa-clad woman. Because any plainclothesmen seen grabbing a woman would attract a hostile mob, the commandos had donned female garb and accosted the suspect as his motorcycle crossed a graveyard. When the fugitive fled through a wheatfield, the commandos shed their burqas and flip-flops and gave chase, eventually cornering him in a house a mile away. After police tossed in tear gas, the suspect, clutching his cell phone, surrendered without a fight...