Word: spun
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...Diehards on conservative forums spun it as The Greatest Debate Gaffe Ever, liberal bloggers at the Daily Kos skipped over that last sentence and called it the apex of debate brilliance, and the rest of us were left with a distinct feeling of unease. Bracelets? Really...
...Friday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Agganis Arena, Boston University. $33.50. 3) Rock the Vote, Literally Politics is for hipsters! McCain watches “The Hills” and Obama’s a heartthrob. Now, you can register to vote while partying to house mixes spun by DJs Bruno, Maurice Wilkey, and KC Hallet. Sunday, Oct. 5 at 10:00 p.m. An Tua Nua, 32 Beacon St., Boston. $10. 4) Baked Fresh: A Festival! Fill up on schwag, snacks, and live music at the artsy event of the year for college kids and young adults. Sunday...
...Lehman's fall shows the downside of using borrowed money. Even though Lehman has a 158-year-old name, it's actually a 14-year-old company that was spun off by American Express in 1994. AmEx had gobbled it up 10 years earlier, and it wasn't in prime shape when AmEx spat it out. To compensate for its relatively small size and skinny capital base, Lehman took risks that proved too large. To keep profits growing, Lehman borrowed huge sums relative to its size. Its debts were about 35 times its capital, far higher than its peer group...
...like a fencer. Pressed about her lack of foreign policy experience, she pivoted to her work on oil and gas policy, calling energy "a foundation of national security." Asked if she'd ever traveled outside the country before her trip last year to Kuwait to visit U.S. soldiers, she spun around to call it a trip of a lifetime, since it also included visits with wounded soldiers in Germany - a stop the McCain campaign repeatedly charged Obama with refusing to make during his trip overseas in July. Asked if she'd ever met a head of state, she raised...
That makes the newly spun-off Dr Pepper Snapple Group a bit of a soft-drink Frankenstein, cobbled together from odd parts. Dr Pepper has acquired about $1.2 billion in bottling assets over the past two years, and that will likely continue, which bodes well for its longer-term outlook, says Wachovia analyst Brian Scudieri. Young is predicting that the Dr Pepper Snapple Group will deliver annual revenue growth of 3% to 5% and earnings-per-share increases in the high single digits over the next few years...