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Fastow and at least six others involved in his financial gaming, all with jobs or spouses at Enron, made at least $42 million on investments totaling $161,000--sometimes literally overnight--while the flawed partnerships they hawked to outfits from the MacArthur Foundation to the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System were collapsing in value...
...staff decided to complete the work in the evening—and not overnight as it typically does for smaller projects—since the entire staff assigned to the Unix server will have to be present for the upgrade. Davis explained that if the work were done overnight, nobody would be available the next day to troubleshoot the server...
...Fastow and at least six others involved in his financial gaming, all with jobs or spouses at Enron, made at least $42 million on investments totaling $161,000--sometimes literally overnight--while the flawed partnerships they hawked to outfits from the MacArthur Foundation to the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System were collapsing in value...
Noting that “You can’t prepare for it overnight,” Redd said she prepared for her appearance on the gameshow by reading trivia books and practising her reflexes...
...puny 10%. The U.S. is the world?s biggest music market and it?s impossible to create world megastars with poor sales there. Deutsche Bank analyst Mark Beilby doubts if any of the five major music companies are willing to invest the time and money needed to create "overnight" sensations. But Munns, who last week was also put in charge of North American operations, says EMI is willing to go that route: "Alain and I have always focused on long-term artist development. In a business that seems so short-term right now, this is not easy...