Word: players
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...culture of unbridled spending is finally coming to a halt. And that's probably a good thing. "Hard times have forced discipline on them," says Sanford Bernstein's Jeffrey Lindsay, who predicts, "They'll come back really powerfully. They can emerge as a much leaner and more competitive player...
...aimed at positioning itself as a leader in digital, low-energy lighting. The plant outside Antwerp belonged to the consumer-lighting market leader Partners in Lighting, which Philips bought in 2006. The company followed that purchase a year later with the $2.7 billion acquisition of Genlyte, a big U.S. player that makes lights for offices, highways, factories and outdoor advertising. Those deals come on top of its own massive in-house research efforts in R&D labs from Silicon Valley to Eindhoven in the Netherlands...
...done all right for a fellow who began as a Universal contract player in 1955, doing bit roles in movies starring giant spiders (Tarantula) and talking mules (Francis in the Navy). He settled into the saddle as ramrod Rowdy Yates, second lead in the cattle-drive TV western Rawhide, a job that guaranteed a paycheck but deferred movie fame. Sergio Leone changed all that when he paid Eastwood $15,000 to play a misanthrope with a gun, wiping out two teams of bad guys, in Fistful of Dollars. By the time he'd done two more Leone westerns...
...become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds.' SEAN AVERY, NHL player, on the relationship between Calgary Flames' Dion Phaneuf and Avery's ex-girlfriend, actress Elisha Cuthbert. He was suspended indefinitely for the remark...
...threes in the game, out of 28 attempts, a 46.4 percent mark.Harvard could only make 2-of-15 long range shots and some credit for this goes to Lowe. Matched up against junior guard Jeremy Lin, Harvard’s top scorer, he limited the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week to 17 points, many of those after the game had been decided.“We know Lin is a very good player and he works hard on every possession,” Wolff said. “Corey’s job was to stay with...