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...Both the amount of advertising and its sophistication has had a major influence on child development," said Allen D. Kanner, an associate of the Wright Institute at the University of California at Berkley who signed the letter. "It is molding how children think and feel about themselves and others. They judge themselves and other people on what they have and what they...
...chronic inconsistency of Blewitt and Wright has forced the Harvard offense to essentially take the field goal option out of the playbook...
This might seem far-fetched, but our soccer athletes are phenomenal kickers (since, you know, they can't use their hands) and would probably be more consistent than Blewitt or Wright. And I don't know about you, but I'd pay to see some of our very own uber-attractive soccer girls in gridiron action...
America's '80s buyout phase mostly bypassed Europe. The main reason: there were fewer European public companies then. It took the IPO movement of the '90s to make going private possible. But what's happening now is no replay of '80s America, Wright insists. That era was marked by hostile bids and huge, massively leveraged deals often financed with high-risk, low-investment-grade junk bonds. Today's deals are rarely hostile, and debt levels are more manageable. Today's mantra is "buy and build." Once a company has been taken private, the idea is to build...
...investment firm, says that because smaller companies are hard to track, "they are an inefficient way of investing" for fund managers. Of the companies that have gone private, more than 90% are in traditional industries such as paper, textiles, food and water, reckons the University of Nottingham's Mike Wright. "The main motivation is that these companies are not really getting a fair valuation in the market," he says. That's a catch-22 for any company unwilling to stagnate. Investors favor bigger companies, but smaller companies with depressed share prices can't do the things needed to grow, like...