Word: toasting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...everyone agreed. As Ricard buttered his toast, the markets battered his firm for paying $8.34 billion for Absolut's parent company, Vin & Sprit--which was almost 21 times the Swedish firm's gross operating profit last year. As if to suggest that Pernod Ricard had overreached, Bruce Carbonari, CEO of Fortune Brands (which was trumped in the Absolut auction), claimed that the price for V&S would not provide an "appropriate return" for shareholders. Yet le patron remained unperturbed. Three years ago, the company leveraged itself heavily to acquire Britain's Allied Domecq, a $13 billion deal that doubled Pernod...
...Freshmen were indeed the toast of the day, with Hofeld and Albright combining on the four-hitter and rookie Dillon O’Neill driving in all two runs of the game’s offense...
...HUAM, hoped the significance of this “Night” would draw a record crowd. “We’re trying to really push it this time,” she says. “At eight we’ll have a toast to the Fogg. We’ll also talk about our plans for the future, because it will be the night that the torch of leadership is passed to Nora and me.” Though supporters of the museums lament the closures of the Fogg and Busch Reisinger, they add that...
Schultz moved swiftly. On Jan. 30, he announced that Starbucks would close 100 underperforming stores and curtail U.S. store openings to about 1,175 in 2008, down 34% from the prior year. The breakfast sandwiches were toast in North America. To get focused on the long term, it would stop reporting comp-store sales to Wall Street. Then, at the March 19 annual meeting, the company laid out its initiatives to reinvigorate the "coffee experience." Some of the projects had been kicked around, but with Schultz back in the CEO chair, everything started to get done more rapidly. "The rate...
...Perhaps Hillary should have jettisoned Bill before she began her campaign. A Hillary presidency could eclipse Bill's, and that would rub his ego the wrong way. And you can take this to the bank: if Hillary does not get the Democratic presidential nomination, their marriage is toast. Patricia Chlum, Homer Glen...