Word: heck
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Merging is one thing; making the deal a success is quite another. Some combinations, like last year's proposed merger of Bell Atlantic and TCI, never make it to the altar. Says Margaret Blair, a Brookings Institution economist: "The difference between the winners and losers is one heck of a lot of luck." And that's often true even if the people involved in megamergers use lofty concepts like "synergy" and "vision" to justify their moves...
...1970s, when our market was going nowhere, Rogers was racking up huge profits in markets that Wall Street didn't know existed. His book is especially timely now that country funds are all the rage, and people who have money tied up in foreign stocks are wondering: What the heck is going on over there? Unlike the rest of us, he actually visits these places before he invests...
...Bush Administration named several top Serbs as potential war criminals, including Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic, the leader of Bosnia's Serbs and General Ratko Mladic, commander of the Bosnian Serb army. The Clinton Administration has compiled evidence of high-level involvement. "We can piece together a heck of a lot," says a U.S. official. A recent State Department report cites evidence that Mladic had "overall responsibility for the camp system." One witness, a Croat who had been an officer in the regular Yugoslav army and later spent 14 months in various Serb-run detention centers, testified that Mladic...
...Heck, no. What are you -- soft on crime...
...finally, the team returned home for its final game against Penn. In Joe Restic's last game, it played well and hard, but lost again, 27-20. It was disappointing, sure, but heck, at least there was still The Game...