Word: unload
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BLAYNEY: Long before Enron came along, we were arm wrestling clients to divest, first in their 401(k), then on their options. That's a constant challenge as a planner, to get them to unload their company stock. They believe...
Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 19 hijackers, is eager to unload this latest hot potato. Officials there quietly hint that the family is of Palestinian, Egyptian or Yemeni origin--the surname is more common in those places--and would love to be able to drop-kick his genealogy to another Arab country. "We are looking into the claims. We are not exactly sure yet," said Nail al-Jubeir, a spokesman for the Saudi embassy in Washington...
...altogether in a few years. Nestlé insists that it has no plans to sever all ties to Alcon, though analysts still expect the food giant to untether the eye-care group eventually. As for Deutsche Telekom, it won't be Europe's first long-distance operator to unload a wireless unit. British Telecom last year spun off mm02, and France Telcom floated a piece of its Orange mobile unit. In addition, the T-Mobile carve-out will help Deutsche Telekom put a small dent in its $54.4 billion debt. Deutsche Telekom also wants to sell its cable assets; regulators...
...becoming more beholden to the government than their Berlusconi-owned competitors. "The atmosphere inside rai is atrocious," said the state TV reporter. Still, the private network has its own inherent limits: Mediaset's vice president is the Prime Minister's son, Piersilvio Berlusconi. Mentana thinks Berlusconi Sr. should unload his TV holdings. "It would certainly be better for me," said the anchorman, who has been fending off conflict-of-interest questions since the media baron's entry into politics in 1994. But Mentana's journalistic instincts tell him not to expect breaking news on that front anytime soon...
...helps the UPS worker unload the 105 packages—many from online vendors like Barnes & Noble.com, Amazon.com and Books-A-Million—he asks the unresponsive driver over a dozen times if he will bring the packages to the Yard...