Word: gushers
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Last week, in the midst of those talks, a rumor started that Texaco was offering to buy Pennzoil for $5 billion. If the gossip proved true, the value of each Pennzoil share would instantly have been 105. But instead of creating a gusher of wealth, the rumor turned out to be a dry hole. Pennzoil Chairman J. Hugh Liedtke denied that any merger was imminent, and the stock slumped...
...Power Rangers became his cash gusher. The Japanese show had been seen as too quirky for foreign audiences. Saban saw it differently and bought the foreign rights in 1985 for just $10,000 an episode. Eight years later he finally found a U.S. buyer in a fledgling children's cable channel owned by Murdoch's Fox Corp. With production and distribution support from Fox, Saban built the Power Rangers into a massive global franchise and in 1996 merged his media company with Murdoch's, eventually forming Fox Family Worldwide. In 2001, when he and Murdoch sold Fox Family to Disney...
...exploration and building more pipelines to move natural gas from Alaska to the rest of the country. (This overlap may have something to do with the fact that labor unions are quickly cozying up to the Bush Administration's more-everything energy policy as a potential job gusher...
...Smith grew up in Texas, it was apparent that NASA's rocket program was not in the cards. But she was clever enough to know her strengths. The night Marshall rolled into the nudie bar she was performing in and fell head over wheels in love, Smith hit a gusher...