Word: guts
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...privatization plan "is a joke" designed to enrich insiders while minority shareholders get the shaft, says Mark Mobius, manager of the Templeton Developing Markets fund, which owns Boto shares. "They basically want to gut the company of its best assets for an unreasonably low price." Stockholders are being offered four cents a share to part with the manufacturing division. Mobius says the offer, at around six times Boto's per-share earnings, should be almost double that considering the company's predicted growth rate. (Boto officials did not return several phone calls, and the Carlyle Group declined to comment...
...personal level, gut instinct tells us the change makes little sense at all. Over the past several weeks the new policy has come under fire—from faculty claiming that they had little knowledge of the repercussions of their vote and from student groups claiming that Harvard has abdicated its responsibility to punish those who violate the school’s sexual assault policy. Each day, it has become clearer that in some fundamental way the change has shattered our sense of community...
...computer. And they should caution their girls against using incendiary language, which is a huge temptation with IM-ing; the word slut is the current favorite pejorative. Girls who know exactly what the rules are will get that "my mom is going to kill me" feeling in their gut when they're going astray. "A dollop of fear from Mom goes a long way, even with a queen bee," Wiseman says, showing that even high school royalty has to answer...
...hours and leaves herself enough time to outline her essays, in detail, before she begins writing them—and to have an extra day to revise them before the ultimate deadline. Most guys, it seems, drawing upon some incredible reserve of confidence, find such efforts superfluous because their gut assures them it all will come together in the end, anyway. Insanely dedicated pre-med boys consistently negate this observation, but, in general, there are many fewer laid-back girls at this school than there are guys when it comes to academics...
...class has long been known as a gut. Greg D. Henning ’02, who took the class in 1999, says the final was so easy that most students finished prematurely, with more than an hour left in the exam session. “One of the things that I still can’t get over is that it had a multiple-choice midterm and final,” he says...