Word: yells
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...IPOs and asset sales won't do the job, that leaves some pretty tough choices. Analysts speculate that BT might cut dividends or issue more shares at cut-rate prices in a rights offering. (BT did have some good news last week; it is reportedly close to selling its Yell online yellow pages in a private sale worth as much as $4 billion.) Another possibility is that the large telecom operators' credit ratings might fall into bbb range - the last bracket before junk-bond status - which would make it more expensive for them to finance future investments. Little wonder, perhaps...
...traders will tell you that the distinguishing characteristic of a true bottom is sort of like a watched pot: When market-watchers yell "bottom" every time they get a day's rally, it breeds the kind of fleeting, knee-jerk optimism that keeps a real bottom from ever settling in. A real bottom is a thing of unabated pessimism and unapologetic capitulation, in which everybody jumps out the window and waits more than one hot minute before reentering the building and getting in the elevator...
...fans who flock to the park each year, Opening Day is the start of a unique lifestyle. They will chant one person's name in unison with 33,000 total strangers and yell with delight when a Yankee strikes out. Young couples in cramped, ancient seats will buy overpriced hot dogs and warm beer. On a bright summer's day, overlooking an emerald baseball diamond, they will fall in love...
...fans who flock to the park each year, Opening Day is the start of a unique lifestyle. They will chant one person's name in unison with 33,000 total strangers and yell with delight when a Yankee strikes out. Young couples in cramped, ancient seats will buy overpriced hot dogs and warm beer. On a bright summer's day, overlooking an emerald baseball diamond, they will fall in love...
...long ago, the name of the company that Tim Koogle stepfathered from infancy to manhood deserved its exclamation point. It was a full-throated barbaric howl, the one profitable rebel yell of the Internet that really drove fear deep into the hearts of the old-media infantry. By last Wednesday, when the Robert E. Lee of this rebel force reached his Appomattox, the yell sounded more like an ironic groan. First-quarter sales set to be 40% off last year's estimate? Ya-hoo. Stock down 92% from its peak, with no end to the freefall in sight? Ya-hooey...