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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...good turns out to be the smart call. But now that the EU has made clear its intention to set its own pace for global mergers, the immediate fallout will be that the next time Wall Street sees a potentially tricky merger coming along, it's rather likely to sneer and something nasty about the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Merger Is Sunk Off European Shores | 7/3/2001 | See Source »

...went [to Crotonville] when 60 percent of the audience would sneer at me," Welch said in a 1998 interview with Business Week. "Most of them wondered, 'Is this guy a nut? Should he be arrested?' It was difficult...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: His Empire Complete, Welch Eyes Retirement | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

...sneer at the teenage fantasies reenacted by your peers as long as you want, but realize that what Valentine's Day really does represent is something so much less appealing on the outside, and so much more rewarding from within...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Editor's Notebook: Love is Not a Box of Chocolates | 2/14/2001 | See Source »

...prestigious Manhattan academy for snotty rich kids. Of course, this new school embraces the worst tendencies of the privileged class; appearance over substance is their collective lifestyle. Rich treats this view with uncomfortable unsubtlety, at one point even permitting a basketball teammate of Jamal’s to sneer at him, “You may think we’re the same, but we’re not.” Van Sant follows suit, photographing a faculty-student function through a thick, sickly pale green cloud; his intent to demonize the people within it could not be made...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CONTIBUTING WRITER | Title: Writer's Block: Forrester Falls Flat | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...During the oral arguments, Scalia missed few opportunities to sneer at Boies for ignoring "equal protection" - what may be sticking in conservative craws the most is the specific inequalities in the current hand count scheme. What could attract Scalia, Rehnquist and Thomas is a hand-count plan that codifies the ballot-by-ballot "voter intent" standard strictly, sensibly and statewide. Boies won't get anywhere with them defending the bloated Democratic counts in Broward, Volusia and one-fifth of Miami-Dade that were summarily blessed Friday by the Florida Supremes, and the conservatives on the high court won't relinquish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Supreme Court Might Do | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

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