Word: magical
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...despite this week's market meltdown, companies will still be keen to buy the special brand of magic that sports teams offer. Citigroup stumped up some $400 million to tag its name to a new stadium that baseball team the New York Mets will play in from next year. And British lender Barclays - who backed out of talks over a possible takeover of troubled Lehman Brothers last weekend - lavished a similar sum for the naming rights to the New Jersey Nets' planned Brooklyn basketball arena. If that sounds risky, consider its exposure in its home market: the U.K. bank...
...Mason, a finance professor at Drexel University in a paper in early 2007. When all the indicators went bad - delinquencies and interest rates up, home prices down - the agencies started yanking the ratings on CDOs by the carload. As the number of subprime delinquencies started to climb, and the magic mark-to-model accounting that the investment houses used to value their AAA and AA CDOs got market-tested - as in, "What will you give me for this piece of paper?" - the game was over...
...Back then, Morales took to calling Rocha his best "campaign manager." Now, amid an explosive and unpredictable political situation, the question is whether Goldberg's expulsion will work the same magic...
...neither did any of the other men who ran for the party's nomination this year, which is why McCain managed to outlast them. As the also-rans trooped onstage to deliver their obligatory endorsements, Republicans were reminded that Mitt Romney looked like a leading man but lacked the magic; that Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee were never going to be more than character actors; and that Rudy Giuliani was a one-hit wonder as a leading man. While the runners-up looked on bravely, Palin blew past them to the head of the line, a cloud of snow...
...jazz. "He works the cracks between all of those genres," says San Francisco Chronicle pop-music critic Joel Selvin. But most critics agree that Jarreau's roots, ultimately, lie in jazz. "What makes him unique is the jazz current - with its inherent sense of swing and improvisational magic - that courses through everything he does, whether it's pop, R&B or whatever," says Los Angeles Times critic Don Heckman...