Word: knocks
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...Saks is that the $1.6 billion purchase price was $200 million to $300 million too high, according to several sources, including a former Investcorp executive with direct knowledge of the deal. "Kirdar wanted it badly," recalls this source, "and he said, 'Let's just do a bid that'll knock everybody out.'" During the two years after the takeover, Saks reportedly lost $398 million, and Investcorp and its clients were forced to invest an additional $300 million in the company. More than five years have passed, and there has been no public offering. Investcorp says Saks has rebounded...
Though Harvard plays a "simple, knock-the-ball-around style," in the words of Petruccelli, the Crimson actually played better in the adverse conditions. Nor would the team attribute any mental lapses to the stresses of midterms...
...home to more than a third of all the Galapagos giant tortoises--is approaching ecological collapse as a result of an infestation of goats and burros. The goat population is so large (50,000 to 75,000) that between 100 and 150 kids are born every day. The goats knock down cacti and trees and munch on the vegetation on which the tortoises depend, while the burros trample the tortoise nests. Elsewhere on Isabela, dogs have eaten most of the land iguanas. On Santiago, goats, pigs, burros, cows and rats have wreaked havoc on the native plant communities. Fire ants...
Winters also says two Harvard Square issues are important in the race: the recent proposal by Cambridge Savings Bank to raze the buildings between the bank and Pizzeria Uno's on JFK Street and the recent proposal by the owners of the Sheraton Commander Hotel to knock down three historic houses in order to build a parking...
...grand-jury hearing." Simpson went on to tell the Times that he isn't broke ("I still have my Ferrari, I still have my Bentley"), that he would like to debate prosecutor Marcia Clark in a pay-per-view TV special ("I'd like to be able to knock that chip off Marcia's shoulder") and that he thinks most Americans believe he is innocent. "Maybe I'm a little cocky," he noted, "but in my heart I feel I can have a conversation with anyone...