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...after some strange occurrences—like the appearance of blood-drained cows—Bat Boy’s neighbors grow suspicious of him and try to stop him from fitting in and finding love...
...masses, and investors like Chen believed the hype. The 72-year-old retiree from Kunming in Yunnan province dropped $40,000 into stocks, surrounded himself with how-to books on beating the market and rigged up a computer in his bedroom so that he could watch himself grow rich in real time. It wasn't to be. Nowadays the charts on his computer screen inexorably nose dive. Chen's savings have depreciated by 60% in the past two years, and he has no doubt about who's to blame: "They're always saying things will get better, but the government...
...CSRC officials have been known in the past to summon brokers to meetings and "advise" them to buy stocks when the market dipped too far. Given this tradition of official intervention, investors have learned to base their buying decisions not on whether they think a company's profits will grow in the long term but on what they think the next governmental policy will be. Thus stocks tank every time the CSRC announces plans to let listed state enterprises sell more of their shares, and they soar whenever outraged investors persuade the CSRC to shelve such plans thereby limiting...
...We’ve had our moments where our guys have been able to grow,” said Dartmouth coach Dave Faucher of his freshman class...
...offered $60 billion to purchase rival Pharmacia in a deal that will create the world's biggest drug firm, with annual sales of $48 billion. (European regulators have delayed the deal, pushing it into the first quarter of this year.) Rivals like Bayer think this means they need to grow to compete. "I think there's going to be a lot of pressure on drug companies," says David Blumberg, managing partner of Accenture's health-care group. "It's not just to make deals happen, it's to make results including revenue growth happen. It's hard...