Word: palmful
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...investors who like to keep score. Apple's iPhone sales likely come at the expense of Research-in-Motion (RIMM) which makes the iconic business tool, the Blackberry, and struggling also-ran Palm (PALM) which is about to release its Pre, the company's last shot at viability. The fact that the Pre will be sold by Sprint (S) which has lower customer satisfaction rating than most short order take-out restaurants makes the future of the little company look bleak. RIMM's stock, on the other hand, has traded up even more than Apple's has this year. That...
...This was a tragic issue on the magnitude of losing a basketball team in an airplane crash.' JOHN WASH, president of club operations at Florida's International Polo Club Palm Beach, where 21 ponies mysteriously collapsed and died before a tournament match...
...whatever the cause, the tragedy has thrust Lechuza's obscure but powerful owner, multi-millionaire Venezuelan banker and polo fanatic Victor Vargas, into the spotlight he usually avoids. In fact, since the beginning of the week, Vargas has not been seen at the Palm Beach Polo Club in Wellington; newspaper reports in the Palm Beach Post and other South Florida media say he's either holed up in the $70 million Palm Beach mansion he purchased last year - one of six homes he owns in Venezuela, the Caribbean, the U.S. and Europe - or has flown overseas...
...could have sold tickets: Bernie Madoff approaching Donald Trump in Palm Beach, asking whether Trump would like to invest some money with him. The Donald, as he recalls in his new book, Think Like a Champion, said no. He also calls Madoff "a scoundrel without par." And refers to himself as "a genius." For those who see Trump's blazing self-confidence as a perfect antidote for these depressing, recession-wracked times, the Donald also continues to buoy spirits with his hit NBC series, The Apprentice. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Trump at his Trump Tower office in Manhattan...
...write that Bernie Madoff asked you to invest with him, and you turned him down. How did you know it wasn't a good deal? Well, I didn't know too much about Bernie Madoff, other than so many people in Palm Beach were investing with him. But I just believe in investing my own money. I don't like paying fees to people to invest my money. I can invest my own money...