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...companies are separated, Wall Street buzz naturally revolves around their merging with or buying other companies or being sold themselves, especially in the wake of the Mars-Wrigley deal. "We believe [the spin-off] makes Cadbury a more attractive potential acquisition target, especially for Kraft," says Andrew Wood, a Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst...
...thinking this wasn't a bad life until veteran flight attendant Elaine Elling put it in perspective. "It's very glamorous," she said. "There's no other job where you thank people for their trash." I don't think I made her feel better by reminding her about Fred Sanford...
...Beyond that, speculators are left with little information to go on. Other names that have been floated as possible McCain picks include Rob Portman, a former Ohio congressman, South Carolina governor Mark Sanford and Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, who is now working as his adviser...
...irony is that TV networks have been out of touch with the working class for years. Blue-collar TV characters used to be routine: Ralph Kramden, Fred Sanford, Laverne and Shirley. TV was the people's medium, after all. But now network dramas and sitcoms have been gentrified. The better to woo upscale viewers, TV has evicted its mechanics and dockworkers to collect higher rents from yuppies in coffeehouses. Even cop shows have been taken away from beat cops and given to the eggheads on CSI and Numb3rs. Goodbye, Roseanne. Hello, Liz Lemon...
...Sanford Kreisberg, an independent consultant who runs the business school admissions blog HBSGURU.com, speculated that the increase may be tied to falling financial markets...