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...best in your era is important, but maybe when Roger is in retirement, people will say, "Look at all these things he's accomplished. He's got to be the greatest player that ever lived." That's the way I think most people would look at his accomplishments...
...There hasn't been this much hoopla over an entertainment deal since the Sirius XM Satellite Radio merger in 2007 during the Bush Administration, Schildkraut said. Although the Sirius-XM deal ultimately got approved (and the combined company has muddled along), President Barack Obama vowed to put some spine back in antitrust enforcement. He named Christine Varney, a strong antitrust advocate, to head the Justice Department's antitrust investigations. "Obama was very vocal during the campaign about reinvigorating the antitrust laws," concurred Olivier Antoine, an attorney in Crowell & Moring's antitrust group, who represented Sirius in the Sirius XM merger...
...got into my research, I saw that those who were really effective made use of not just a "to-do" list but a "stop-doing" list. I set up a time almost every day where I turn off my cell phone and do not get on [the Internet]. It's a pocket of quietude. I also leave white space on my calendar, roughly three days every two weeks. Nothing can be scheduled during white-space time. I try to create bubbles of tranquil time for hard thinking. It can also be a day where...
...been one of my great classrooms. Gravity does not care if you didn't get enough sleep - you've got to be on your game. El Capitan [a perilous rock formation in Yosemite National Park] is unforgiving, and gravity is unforgiving. That's what we're studying - how you build something great in an environment that's unpredictable, uncertain and ultimately unforgiving...
...excited about signs of life in the economy. Some days it seems there's good news everywhere: home sales ticking up, slower job losses, the Dow turning positive for the year. But all that misses a looming reality. American consumers, whose overspending largely got us into this mess, are still under massive pressure, owing to the record debt they racked up during the boom years. People are unwinding those burdensome obligations - from mortgages to car loans to credit-card debt - as fast as they can, but the process is sure to take years, and until it is complete, the economy...