Word: overlord
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...don’t have to look very far back to find much more appropriate operation names. Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, for instance, were descriptive and sounded good but still avoided being infuriatingly simplistic. How about Operation Overlord or Operation Torch in World War II? They managed to sound sufficiently cool and army-ish to appeal to Americans with short attention spans, but not bombastic enough to sound like Tom Clancy’s latest video game. Even the Germans got it right with Operation Sealion...
...fell as much as 40 percent on the Paris Stock Exchange that day as Le Monde questioned the company's accounting practices and Moody's cut Vivendi's credit rating to junk bond status. In New York, other big media stocks tumbled as well, including AOL Time Warner (corporate overlord of this writer) on renewed fears that the accounting for such large, multidimensional companies had become too hard to follow. By Friday the stocks had made an uneasy recovery - the prices of AOL and Vivendi returned to the levels they had been at before the Messier announcement - but the questions...
Residents of various working-class Queens neighborhoods also sang Gotti’s praises. They widely eulogized the former Gambino overlord as a philanthropic captain of industry—someone who kept the neighborhood safe, helped out the poor and paid for a fireworks display every Fourth of July in Ozone Park...
...must test their goodwill assets for "impairment" annually - and when they find some, they've got to fess up. And while AOL Time Warner's number may be the biggest (just topping JDS Uniphase's write-down last year of just over $50 billion), the media giant (and corporate overlord of this writer) isn't standing alone. A recent Bear Stearns study anticipates that some 500 companies are candidates for write-downs this year, with perhaps a dozen in the billion-dollar club...
...Meanwhile, the corporate overlord of this writer, AOL Time Warner, recently sent out letters informing all worker bees - corner office or not - that new company-match contributions in company stock would be immediately transferable to, well, whatever other investment option we worker bees might find enticing. Do nothing, and the money still buys company stock (this strategy also works if you happen to believe in the company's prospects). Want to move it all into, say, Microsoft? Good old AOLTW won't squawk, not now or three years from...