Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the Senator blustered, Louisiana-Pacific was getting ready to toss the mill overboard. Why? As a financial proposition, logging in remote, southeast Alaska is problematic because of the high cost of Alaskan labor and the expense of building logging roads. Now, with pulp prices falling, the company is facing increasing competition from mills with cheap labor and fast-growing trees...
...which has not fought a war since 1945 but which sent its coast guard to the islands last week to turn away two groups of Chinese protesters intent on reaching the disputed specks. Last week the Chinese got their first martyr--a Hong Kong activist who drowned after leaping overboard to symbolically claim the waters for China. Beijing, which had encouraged the confrontation to tweak Tokyo, now worries about being swept up by the populist fervor...
...performance. While these industry leaders offer many of the same types of funds, they are by no means cookie-cutter clones. Some are simply better at certain types of investing than others. Therefore, a better strategy might be to select the best funds--and don't go overboard here--from perhaps three different fund companies...
Hendrickson's churning account begins with an anonymous man's attempt to throw McNamara overboard during a ferry ride to Martha's Vineyard in 1972. Many of Hendrickson's scenes and anecdotes first appeared in the Washington Post in the mid-'80s. Here the journalist looks further into McNamara's brilliant careers at the Harvard Business School and the Ford Motor Co. The record reveals a top-of-the-line number cruncher steeped in the values of corporate loyalty. But as Secretary of Defense, his mistakes cost lives, not shareholder dividends. And yet his responsibilities required a level of abstraction...
...culture going a bit overboard with this ab infatuation? Should we really be promoting such vanity by emphasizing the importance of physical beauty...