Word: knighting
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There?s a new "white knight" for the damsel in distress that is Enron. Oak Brook, Ill.-based power-plant developer Standard Power and Light wants to buy Enron for less than $1 a share (about what it?s trading at right now). But the company might want to proceed cautiously - look what happened to Dynergy, Enron?s last would-be savior. As Enron filed for the biggest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history, it sued Dynegy for "not less than" $10 billion, charging them with using disingenuous merger talks to "put an end to Enron as a competitive force...
...TIME?s Cathy Booth Thomas, after talking with Watson last week, tells the story of the fall of the house of Enron from the point of view of a white knight who ultimately decided that saving Enron was going to be far more trouble than it was worth...
With only seconds to play and Clarkson (4-6-3, 3-0-2 ECAC) clinging to a 2-1 lead, Capouch sent in a shot from the left point that Golden Knight goalie Mike Walsh stopped...
...irregularity of the iris," he says. Irreverence, he thinks, might have helped his work. Daugman finally cracked the iris code by embracing randomness. "My system finds what it is looking for by failing to match a pattern," explains Daugman, who rarely mentions that the Queen made him a knight in 2000 for his work. If his iris system makes airports safer, he will have the thanks not only of the British monarchy, but of the world as well...
Rutgers senior midfielder Dustin Sheppard iniated the game winning attack. After controlling a Knight throw-in deep in Harvard territory, he served the ball to El Bialy wide of the right post. El Bialy sent the ball across the goal line but out of any Harvard player’s reach. Ludwig, who had been rushing towards the goal, one-timed the ball softly into the left corner of the net as senior goalkeeper Dan Mejias was on the right post...