Word: rammed
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Amid the acrimony, the challenge for investors is to keep an eye on the bottom line. "Personalities make this contest more sexy for public consumption," says Ram Kumar, senior analyst for Institutional Shareholder Services, who has heard the stump speeches of both sides. "We try to confine ourselves to logic." Kumar's rationale counts more than most. Next week the influential ISS will mail a widely awaited report to pension funds and other big holders of HP stock. Because the family foundations opposing the merger control 19% of HP shares, Fiorina needs around two-thirds of institutional investors...
...sports. But with the advent of private and pay-TV networks came the search for content that would not only attract viewers, but also build the kind of loyal subscriber bases and demographics that advertisers love. The answer? Sport, once famously described by Murdoch as pay-TV's "battering ram." Broadcasters piled in, sparking a bidding war for sporting content that drove the price of rights for many major events through the stadium roof...
...only thing I don’t like to do is the proctors, because they never check their mail, so you have to ram your hand in,” says Riley...
...only so far: there's always an element of gut, and of risk. Lutz used his gut to propel a struggling Chrysler to greatness in the 1990s with a series of cars and trucks that initially raised eyebrows internally but have since became household names: the Viper, the Ram pickup, the PT Cruiser...
EXPENSIVE $2,679 TOSHIBA PORTEGE 4000 Many lightweight laptops get that way by being stripped of cool features. Not this 4.5-lb. roadie, with its 750-MHz Pentium III, 256MB of RAM and 30GB hard drive, plus a combo DVD-drive/ CD-burner, built-in wireless networking and a long list of lesser perks. www.toshiba.com...