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...everyone agreed. As Ricard buttered his toast, the markets battered his firm for paying $8.34 billion for Absolut's parent company, Vin & Sprit--which was almost 21 times the Swedish firm's gross operating profit last year. As if to suggest that Pernod Ricard had overreached, Bruce Carbonari, CEO of Fortune Brands (which was trumped in the Absolut auction), claimed that the price for V&S would not provide an "appropriate return" for shareholders. Yet le patron remained unperturbed. Three years ago, the company leveraged itself heavily to acquire Britain's Allied Domecq, a $13 billion deal that doubled Pernod...
...Class of 2007 to effective deportation because they had barely taken midterms by the date on which they needed proof of graduation.The U.S. economy has thrived for so long in part because it attracts the world’s greatest minds. The H1-B cap, however, undermines that inviting sprit by turning away many talented individuals out of a misplaced desire to “protect” American jobs. Consequently, Congress should increase, if not wholly eliminate, the H1-B quota. Here at Harvard, the administration should do all it can to assist our international students in need...
...Middle East. Listen to a relatively polite sampling from leading dailies in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, countries with long-standing, friendly and strategic ties with Washington: "(American troops) are purely forces of invasion and occupation that are motivated by hatred and obsessed with a sprit of subversion." "Does Bush know now that his actions are the answer to the question, 'Why do they hate us?' " "This war, which is illegal according to international law and immoral by any standards, is about oil and America's strategic dominance of the Middle East, no more, no less...
...Square sail and sprit sail...
...sadly final, encore—Strauss’ “Morgen”—sent the audience home in what Fleming termed a “contemplative mood,” firmly convinced of both the purity of Fleming’s voice and her irrepressible sprit...