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...Livedoor's woes show, a get-rich-quick, growth-by-acquisition strategy can be rife with risk. In Livedoor's case, driving up the company's stock price may have become a dangerous obsession. Unable to achieve fast enough growth through normal business operations, it allegedly misled the public in order to goose its stock, sell some of its shares, then pocket the proceeds as profits...
...loves to play cards and board games and frolic with her brother Jack, 5. "She speaks loudly--sometimes too loudly--and can be bossy toward her brother," says mother Lisa Barnes, who runs the trading desk at a money-management firm. Abby is, in every other way, a perfectly normal child who has no shortage of extracurricular activities, including horseback-riding lessons and dance classes that she's been attending since she was 4. "Performing in public is fine," says her mother. "She likes people to look at her and applaud...
...True) Yes, those deliverymen generally are busier on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day. Some chains sell over 40% more pizzas than they do on a normal Sunday...
...poisoning. More than one-third of them suffered heart-muscle injury, and of those, nearly 40% were dead within eight years. "We were surprised that so many of the patients died," says Dr. Timothy Henry, one of the study's authors. "That's three times as high as the normal population...
...their next line. The most ridiculous example of animator negligence, actually, is a perfect metaphor for the film itself. In one scene, Red falls out of a chairlift and hits a few thin, leafy tree branches on her way down. But instead of bending to her body weight like normal branches, these remain immobile as Red connects with and bounces off of each one with a loud thud. In the same fashion, the Weinstein brothers have found a normally yielding genre to be a lot harder than they had expected, with equally painful results...