Word: nonetheless
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This is what the bull market hath wrought: two jesters, a teenager and a band of recipe-reciting septuagenarians as market heroes. Well, last week one bubble burst. The lovable ladies were unmasked as frauds--unintentional, mind you--but frauds nonetheless. Five books, hundreds of speeches and dozens of national-TV appearances later, Chicago Magazine challenged their claim of earning compound annual average returns of 23.4% in the 10 years ending...
...Boatmen's Bancshares in St. Louis, Mo., in January 1997, he waited barely a year to announce a $15.5 billion deal to buy Barnett. Then he backed away from a pledge to cut $450 million out of Barnett's costs this year because of difficulty digesting the earlier acquisition. Nonetheless, NationsBank is shedding 200 branches in Florida (including 124 that state regulators have ordered it to divest) and reducing the merged workforce from 30,000 to 22,000. Gleeful local rivals have launched an ad blitz that analysts say could persuade about 10% of Barnett's customers to switch their...
National City explains that different accounts require different kinds of information; therefore getting a company's financials is only prudent. Nonetheless, a furious Woschitz walked across the street to Anderson Community Bank, where he wouldn't have to keep proving himself to a succession of strangers. Last year the newly chartered small lender gave Woschitz a hassle-free $50,000 loan to add a surgery unit...
...doesn't always help to go back to the same capitals and play the Saint-Saens cello concerto," he says--a rarefied rut, but a rut nonetheless. "If I can't remember what I did [during a given performance], something is really wrong. I set myself the goal that I damn well better remember at the end of the year what I did, or otherwise I shouldn't be doing it." He shrugs off criticism of his experiments with "lesser" genres: "Where do these designations like 'You are a classical musician, you can't do this' come from...
People who have several actor-friends will have difficulties keeping all those breathless promises: No less than four (4, IV, quatre) productions will go up just about every single weekend in April. This obviously doesn't include ones that I have not included, but, nonetheless, the number is staggeringly high. Will the threateningly high volume mean quality shortages in the near future, leading to a reactionary, elitist reduction of productions sometime in the future? We can hope not, because the percentage of shows worth their lovinggoodness remains constant, meaning a higher yield the higher the number of shows (the math...