Word: swaps
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...panelists relished the task, in part because it gave them a chance to swap notes (and a little bit of gossip) on the contenders. It helped that they came from different disciplines: Thomas Cech, who heads the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1989, while Herbert Pardes, the president of New York Presbyterian Hospital, teaches psychiatry at Columbia, and J. Richard Gott is an astrophysicist at Princeton. M.I.T.'s Steven Pinker and Harvard's Stephen Kosslyn specialize in brain and cognitive sciences; Thomas Lovejoy is a tropical biologist who serves as chief biodiversity adviser...
...competitors in less than two years, and its $12 billion market capitalization hovers near that of industry leader Solectron, based in Milpitas, Calif. Both, though, face tough competition from Sanmina, which is based in San Jose and which last month agreed to buy rival SCI Systems, in a stock swap worth about $, 4 billion, plus assumption of $1.5 billion in debt...
...year-old Dercy Goncalves will pose nude in the magazine's Brazilian edition. Editors say she's so hot that she can pass for 93, easy JOHN REESE Student pilot crashes in Cuba. Mistakenly believing he has found a new continent, he dubs it Johnania and offers to swap beads...
...before the split, you'd now only own one. The resulting drought should leave Webvan standing $2 tall. Above water, but at what cost? The one major precedent for a reverse stock split in the dotcom world is not encouraging. Now-defunct drugstore PlanetRx.com tried a 1 to 8 swap last November, which kept the angry hounds of NASDAQ at bay for just two months. It went into liquidation last March...
...Still optimistic in the face of the overwhelming odds stacked against the orangutans, Smits boasts that he has traveled to Washington with "a letter of authorization from the Indonesian government in my hand to set up a debt-for-nature swap," whereby a portion of Indonesia's foreign debt would be paid off in return for the creation of a huge protected area in central Borneo of some 700,000 hectares. Considering the utter chaos in Jakarta, it is, at the very least, a highly optimistic plan...