Word: summed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will to power is a notion utterly alien to the gentlemen and ladies of the Clinton Administration. What a retrograde, common idea. In the world of geoeconomics and globalization, of international community and cooperation, of trade and togetherness, how primitive--how zero-sum--these dreams of power...
...problem, Strober said after her speech, was not the monetary sum, but the principle of the settlement itself. Mrs. Wendt, who sued for 50 percent of the household's assets, has, according to Strober, "gotten a backlash for what many have called greed, but is genuinely sincere in her quest for compensation for wives' work." Strober said she established the Institute for Equality in Marriages with this quest in mind...
...good enough, considering the economic tidal wave that's about to hit Habibie's shores. "Because he's not going to have support from across the board," says McCarthy, "it's hard to see how he's going to weather that." Habibie had better update his online résumé while he has the chance...
Five miles away, at Pacific Lumber headquarters, spokeswoman Mary Bullwinkel deadpans, "I don't believe trees can talk." Butterfly's redwood tree is a valuable hostage; if it were sawed into boards for luxury-home paneling or outdoor decks, it would be worth a six-figure sum. And trees like that translate into jobs for loggers. When the Eureka Times-Standard, the local paper, printed stories about Butterfly last month, it was showered with complaints. "We write about rapists, but it doesn't mean we support them," huffed editor David Little in a column defending his news judgment. "Lighten...
...notes that the value of stock swaps relative to cash mergers is off the charts this year. "They don't want to buy shares with cash," he says of acquisitive CEOs. "They'd rather sell their own stock to make the deal." In similar fashion, companies now include hefty sums of stock options in the pay of an array of employees. Sure, it's what the people want. But technically, the company is selling. Biderman estimates there are $1 trillion worth of unexercised stock options out there, a staggering sum for the market to absorb when those execs cash...