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...whole episode in a slightly different way," says one participant. Already, there is speculation in the markets about who else the Chinese company might target for an acquisition. As he licked his wounds in Beijing, one thing should certainly have bucked up Fu. Once the speculation that CNOOC might pull out of the bidding rolled around international markets, the company's stock started to rise sharply. By August 5, CNOOC's U.S.-traded shares were at $69, compared to $55 in mid-June. From the start, Fu had always insisted that the Unocal bid had been about increasing "shareholder value...
...still wanted--hug from a teacher, says Dr. Lottie Smith, a K-8 principal in Milwaukee. "In middle and high school, that's a no-no. We don't touch," says Smith. Middle schools were originally intended to be nurturing places, but it hasn't been easy to pull that off, says Harry Finks, a veteran middle school teacher and principal, who wrote one of the first handbooks for middle school staff: "You want to create a dialogue, so that an eighth-grade boy can come up to you and say, 'Man, my guinea pig died and I'm really...
Although this theme has found its way into many a teen movie, Angarano, best known for playing Jack’s long-lost son on “Will and Grace,” has the charm and inflection to pull it off. The 17-year-old star (one thing Disney does consistently well is hire actual teens to play teens in its movies) plays the nice but sometimes clueless guy in a style reminiscent of a young, less cynical John Cusack...
...good once it leaves orbit, meaning its descent is powerless. Flying a brick with wings, as the engineers have often called the ship, has a very fine margin of error. Lose your purchase on the air and go into a spin, and there's almost no way to pull out of it. "The attitude needs to be very, very precise," says Thagard. "You can pick up heat so fast you get a breakup...
...myself a money belt and strapped it around my middle. I took it from Washington all the way to Guam, flying on military transport service. When I arrived in Guam, I went straight to Adm. Nimitz headquarters. I had to open up the shirt of my uniform, pull my shirt out of my pants-in front of the admiral-and pull out the money belt. I brought out the envelope, which by that time was pretty sweaty looking, and I handed it to the Admiral, much to his amusement...