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...Stock-market bears are not universal, but they have sharp teeth, last month nicking 25% from B-A-B's share price after the company said same-store sales would increase just 2% or 3%, compared with a 13.8% sales increase in last year's first half. The stock recently regained some ground, to around $24 a share. "We overestimated," says Clark, explaining that last year's muscular performance was unsustainable. Clark thinks earnings could still rise 26% to 32% in 2005--great for most companies but ordinary compared with last year's 163% jump...
...website, but credits her roommates and family with spreading the news far and wide. She is especially proud of Kelly Noon—a friend and former women’s lacrosse player—and Banfield for allegedly bombarding the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with flyers about the ESPYs...
...heart of headquarters is in the kitchen, where an antique stove and constant cable serve the firefighters. Each month the firefighters chip in $8 to pay for the Ritz crackers and peanut butter that stock the kitchen...
...that every branch of the U.S. military sponsors a stock-car team, the armed services are looking to NASCAR for more than just a recruiting vehicle. Some of the techniques and equipment perfected on the tracks could easily benefit the Pentagon's trucks and aircraft. For starters, Carlson Technology, which advises teams on how to shave seconds off pit stops, and Roush Industries, which manages nine teams--including one sponsored by the Army National Guard--have shown the Army's National Automotive Center, near Detroit, how to reduce significantly the time it takes to change out the engine...
Though a strain of melancholy was part of his nature, Lincoln possessed a remarkable sense of humor and a gift for storytelling that allowed him, time and again, to defuse tensions and relax his colleagues at difficult moments. Many of his stories, taken from his seemingly limitless stock, were directly applicable to a point being argued. Many were self-deprecatory, all were hilarious. When he began one of them, his "eyes would sparkle with fun," one old-timer remembered, "and when he reached the point in his narrative which invariably evoked the laughter of the crowd, nobody's enjoyment...