Word: shaft
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...privatization plan "is a joke" designed to enrich insiders while minority shareholders get the shaft, says Mark Mobius, manager of the Templeton Developing Markets fund, which owns Boto shares. "They basically want to gut the company of its best assets for an unreasonably low price." Stockholders are being offered four cents a share to part with the manufacturing division. Mobius says the offer, at around six times Boto's per-share earnings, should be almost double that considering the company's predicted growth rate. (Boto officials did not return several phone calls, and the Carlyle Group declined to comment...
...demonstrated how the murderer most likely stood over the victim, repeatedly hitting her with the club. "She was probably on the ground receiving some injury," he said. As the killer swung the club back, it had finally broken apart and the bloodied metal head and two sections of the shaft flew more than100 feet, coming to rest among dead leaves across the yard. The killer then dragged the girl 80 feet to a tree, stopping at one point along the way to roll the body over and change from pulling the upper body to pulling it by the feet...
Undercover Brother (May 31): Starring Eddie Griffin, Dave Chapelle, Denise Richards and Chris Kattan in a very obvious takeoff of Shaft, this spoof features a number of departed Saturday Night Live alums that is unimpressive at best...
Decorating philosophy: I think my room shows my informality, or letting go, if you will. I like to put figures I like to emulate on my wall, like Jimi Hendrix and Cary Grant. Oh, and Sean Connery and Shaft, you’ve gotta have them...
...public, has its own tragic history. It was closely associated with the charities founded by Grand Duchess Elizabeth, Nicholas II's half-English sister-in-law. The day after the Czar and his family were murdered, Elizabeth and other members of the royal family were thrown down a mine shaft in Siberia...