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...designer Holley Group bought a NASDAQ-listed Californian company called American Champion Entertainment. Only later did the Chinese learn that American Champion's assets amounted to little more than a children's TV show called Adventures with Kanga Roddy. Chinese firms today still aren't rich enough to buy top-flight companies, but they do have money to spend. Lenovo earned $135 million in its last fiscal year on revenues of $3 billion, giving it the heft and confidence to believe that it's ready to compete on an even larger scale...
...bought from other European teams, making the gamble taken by the likes of Sibaya, Zwane or Anyamkyegh a fair bet. (And, of course, after a couple of seasons' service, selling these players, whose contracts were acquired for a couple of hundred thousand dollars from an African team, to a top-flight European club for a few million is part of the business plan that keeps a number of clubs in Holland and France afloat...
...qualify for the top-flight final, Harvard needed to either win its opening heat or, failing that, place in the top four in the next day’s repechage race...
...terms like "I know he's not a shoe salesman, but I don't know of any violent crime he committed." Today on Las Vegas--one of the few new series to click with viewers last fall--the former Godfather gangster plays the head of security at a top-flight casino. The show's tone is hardly dark. The Elvis theme song--"A little less conversation/A little more action"--aptly captures its cheerfully vacant spirit ("I don't know what kind of drama awards we're gonna win," Caan says dryly). But old Vegas or new Vegas, says Caan...
...thing they didn’t pitch was Harvard’s top-flight engineering school...