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...Billions For the past six months, Silicon Valley has been buzzing with the prospect of tech's first blockbuster public offering since the dotcom crash: search engine juggernaut Google's IPO is expected in a couple of weeks. But Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin seem determined to spoil the party. Last week the company gave an unusually bullish official estimate of its opening share price: $108 to $135 per share, or more than 150 times annual profit per share. Historically, most large companies average about one-seventh of that. Google watchers were split on the reason. Either Page...
...vulnerable as people thought." Suva businessman Tauz Khan, whose security-equipment and taxi companies are in the same industrial park as the drug warehouse, hopes he's right. The fight against drugs must succeed, he says: "We don't want these guys to come back here and spoil our paradise...
...vulnerable as people thought." Suva businessman Tauz Khan, whose security-equipment and taxi companies are in the same industrial estate as the drug warehouse, hopes he's right. The fight against drugs must succeed, he says: "We don't want these guys to come back here and spoil our paradise...
...humans aren't aquatic. Most of us, in fact, wish the world were dryer, not wetter, and flooding tops the list of human grievances against the beaver. By raising water levels, its unkempt but admirably watertight dams can flood basements, swamp sewer systems, spoil trout streams and even derail trains...
...definitely do want to knock them out,” Harvard junior captain Jason Norman said. “They’ll be fired up, but we want to spoil their season...