Word: sprees
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...faces, it takes quite some time to realize that they are in fact two separate band members and not just Joel and his doppelgänger. I don’t know for sure that one day Joel will go to jail for Benji’s hipster-killing spree, but I have my suspicions. What I do know is that, while a video consisting of the band performing against a white background is classic, it is also dull unless either the performance or the filming is particularly arresting. Having a lot of tattoos doesn?...
...ricocheted off of a Big Green skate and across the goal line. The score temporarily brought the Crimson within one at 3-2, but Dartmouth would respond with two goals under a minute apart to dash any hopes of a comeback. Despite the Big Green’s scoring spree, Harvard goaltender Justin Tobe returned to the ice for the third period. “I didn’t feel that pulling [Tobe] at any time was the right thing to do,” Donato said. “I don’t think that...
Despite the Big Green’s scoring spree, Harvard goaltender Justin Tobe returned to the ice for the third period...
...Cashed up thanks to rising profits at home, Indian firms are on a shopping spree?and increasingly looking abroad. In the past year, the Tata Group has snapped up everything from American telecom firm Tyco Global to venerable British teamaker Tetley. Other Indian companies have bought foreign pharmaceutical firms, auto-parts makers and aluminum suppliers. Last week a consortium led by India's Videocon Industries agreed to buy South Korean appliance maker Daewoo Electronics for $700 million. "Indian companies have become competitive, and they realize that," says Gurcharan Das, former CEO of Procter & Gamble India and author of the best...
...Since Ratan Tata became chairman in 1991, he has multiplied Tata group revenues seven times to an annual $22 billion. Since 2000, the group's market value has multiplied almost 18 times to $49.1 billion. For the past six years, Tata has been on a $1.9 billion acquisition spree that has netted Britain's Tetley Tea, South Korea's Daewoo Commercial Vehicles, Singapore's NatSteel and New York City's Pierre Hotel, among more than a dozen others. And it's not over yet. Last week, Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus agreed an $8 billion takeover bid by Tata Steel...