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...were too ambitious, but they couldn't have grabbed so much venture capital if they weren't. Investors were eyeing IPO riches." Not that either company was particularly frugal with the wealth Wall Street brought. Their combined bonfire consumed more than $860 million, not counting the undisclosed seven-figure sum Webvan paid the San Francisco Giants to sponsor all the cupholders at Pacific Bell Park...
...sweltering courthouse with broken windows, water-stained walls and seats splotched with mildew, a three-judge panel convicted the couple on charges of embezzling, destruction of evidence and tax evasion. They were sentenced to serve seven years and pay fines of more than $500,000, a sum the Danes say they don't have. How did a lark turn into a legal quagmire? Blame a combination of naivety, inept legal advice and a complex ownership battle over a sapphire mine in a backwater capital where Western businesses remain a novelty, payoffs are routine and regulations nonexistent...
...collection of 19th- and early 20th-century documents pertaining to Longfellow was sold for an undisclosed sum by literary publicist Victor Gulotta, who had amassed it over 14 years...
MISUSED STATS In his new book The Sum of Our Discontent (Texere), David Boyle suggests that our demand for precision often leads to misleading or silly numbers. For example...
...What if he wins - or at least is fighting hard - in the fall of 2002, or 2004? Twenty billion is a sum which, Davis will not hesitate to point out, could have been sloshing around in the nation's biggest economy during the nation's first good look at a recession in ten years if not for somebody having gotten screwed. By Houston. And the White House...