Word: posterize
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...want to know what Shanahan thinks about late at night, what truly gets him agitated, ask him about the boiler. It comes on for 20 minutes and then goes off. He cannot get the church above 60[degrees] for Sunday Mass. He has put up a huge thermometer poster, marking the slow progress of a campaign to raise $55,000 for a new boiler. A couple of weeks ago, he got an anonymous voice-mail message that left him devastated. The furious caller said he had got sick from the frigid church. "Why don't you use some...
...jobs valorized. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Wayne Griffith even screened the Embassy pilot for foreign-service classes. "They were all wondering if they were going to get their royal love interest in their first tour, of course," he says. One person's dramatic license is another's recruitment poster...
Andrew Carnegie was another poster boy for nondiversification. He advised putting all your eggs in one basket--"then watch that basket." Carnegie's eggs were made of steel. Fast-forward to today, when average workers have become rich at Microsoft and Dell by loading up on their employers' stock (thus the Dellionaires). Bill Gates' portfolio is still overwhelmingly Microsoft. Bad planning, Bill. And how about the folks who retire from Wal-Mart and can shop at Tiffany because they bought Sam Walton's stock on the cheap? One stock. One company...
...father was never a clown, he was a trapeze artist and a juggler. My grandfather was a clown. My great-grandfather was an acrobat and a dancer. And before that we really don't know. The latest documentation we have is an 1859 poster where the name of my great-grandfather, Pierre Larible, is printed...
Scottish Power is a poster boy for the latest trend in European corporate finance: demerging. The '90s were years of stock market-inspired bulking up - in Europe there were $4.7 trillion worth of mergers and acquisitions as capital markets surged. But now that market valuations have retreated, this is a time of slimming down, as companies look to impress investors by shedding unprofitable or unnecessary divisions...