Kenneth Lay of this co. admitted, "In hindsight, we made some very bad investments in noncore businesses…"
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Enron Mentions- 11/14/01  Nov 14, 2001 ... 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. .... Chairman and Chief Executive Ken Lay on Wednesday acknowledged ... and investors, Lay admitted that Enron had made bad investments, overburdened itself with...
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Enron's Lay Says 'Very Bad Investments,' Loss of Investor ...  Chairman Kenneth Lay acknowledged that his company made billions of ... "In hindsight, we made some very bad investments in noncore businesses that...
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NexLP-Challenge/final-output.txt at master  alyssy/NexLP ... - GitHub  Upon completion of the merger, the combined company, to be called Dynegy Inc., ... In a stunning mea culpa to analysts and investors, Lay admitted that Enron had .... "In hindsight, we made some very bad investments in noncore businesses," Mr. ...... As I was reading Ken Lay's announcements about Enron's merger with...
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December 5, 2008  ... Cross and I'm walking the dog" Bob Dole;Dole Kenneth Lay of this co. admitted, "In hindsight, we made some very bad investments in noncore businesses
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FW: Enron For Sale List - Enron Mail  Nov 15, 2001 ... Enron Corp. officials admitted they made serious investment errors in recent ... Enron Chief Executive Officer Ken Lay surprised many with a blunt ... To help make the cuts, the company is breaking its businesses into three...
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Jeopary Questions page 11 - THE CANTERBURY TALES ...  THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS: This retailer's stock went up when it merged with Kmart, but it has room to improve operationally  THE NEW YORK TIMES...
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The Case of the Combative CFO - Harvard Business Review  A former college roommate of the company's chief executive officer, Neil Harcum, ... news: the company's national newspaper, America Today, was losing moneyserious money. ... Chicago Bulletin: Minute Publishing Awash in Red Ink .... Rest assured that if you don't act, there are plenty of shareholder groups out there...
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ABSCAM  FBI  We set up a bogus company in Long IslandAbdul Enterprises, thus the name "AB(dul)SCAM"said to be owned by a wealthy Arab sheik who wished to invest...
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Schwab again says that it's not for sale - The Boston Globe  Jul 8, 2005 ... Charles Schwab Corp. reiterated it's not for sale after the company's ... as investors bet the discount stock brokerage pioneer would be swept up in a wave of takeovers. ... he sold the brokerage to Bank of America for $57 million in 1983. ... other managers bought back the brokerage for $230 million in 1987.
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CHAPTER 5 MEASURING RETURN ON INVESTMENTS What Is a ...  what are the different types of investment decisions that firms have to make?  In measuring .... This firm would find itself overinvesting in risky projects and under ... taken by riskier businesses will have to cover these higher costs. ...... larger ones. ... good to bad outcomes and compute the value of the project under each one.
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Down 17% for the year, losing $14,000 on a $81,000 portfolio ...  Nov 29, 2011 ... I wanted to learn trading and invest in the stock market. ... Close up shop and convert everything to a a mix of a few high profile ... Preferably companies that are FACELESS as far as the consumer is ..... Go back to your flavor of the week index funds and stick your head ..... Take Warren Buffet as an example.
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Turning Data into Knowledge | IT World Canada News  Oct 25, 2000 ... The situation is reminiscent of 16th-century England, when Sir Thomas Gresham, ... It's usually stated as, Bad money drives out good, meaning that ... refer to Gresham's information law: bad transaction data drives out good knowledge. ... Sometimes I suspect that only the names have changed over time.
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Psst... here's a rumor: - Omaha Forums  Mar 12, 2007 ...  If the national chains are afraid of the market, it can't be that great, they ... reason why Omaha isn't such a hotbed for the nationals is because ... mostly health, disability, and life insurance, sponsors of the successful nature show Wild Kingdom ... There will always be things we dont have, but what is more...
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Spoiler Talk: CotD (Mon)  Fikkle Fame  3 days ago ... $200: This type of domain could lose you your house if the government needs your land, yo $400: It's one of these that blows nobody any...
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William Black Flunks Bethany McLean For Giving Goldman a Hall ...  Aug 18, 2012 ... In any case, this week on CNBC Maria Bartiromo invited William Black and .... Bethany says it is time for us all to move on for the good of ... When you read these headlines, imagine Bethany McLean, .... That's the least of it! .... been cut in half since the IPO and the market-cap is down $40 billion in 90 days.
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Jeopary Questions page 2140 - BEND IT LIKE BECKETT - Trivia Bistro  2002 this undersea fiber optic telecom co. founded by Gary Winnick sank ... THERE'S NO BUSINESS: This airline's "Friendly Skies" were darkened by its Dec. ... out on this Houston company when it declared bankruptcy in December 2001.
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Rouble trouble: Naive Russian investors have had their fingers badly  Aug 20, 1994 ... Scores of Russians who had been duped into buying shares in the MMM investment fund gathered near Moscow's Pushkin Square to burn a ... The investors had had their fingers badly burnt in post-communist Russia's biggest ... The wild promises should have rung alarm bells for viewers but they did not.
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Beware - two italian guys in SUV - scam artists (emporio a ...  I'm no fool...checked the jackets out and they were name-brand ... seemed far to flimsy and cheap to come from a guy in designer anything. ... they catch these Fuckers!...they talk never seen this kind of scam I'm my life .... New victims every day. .... They approached my uncle, same story, here was his deal
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Boston bank felt effects when Trump hit early debt - The Boston Globe  Oct 5, 2016 ... The yacht cost some $4 million a year to operate, and Trump boasted at ... Built in Italy, the boat was featured in a James Bond movie, Never Say Never ... A spokesman for Bank of New York Mellon Corp., which bought the Boston ... The $12 million Mar-a-Lago loan was due to mature in December 1993.
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In Re: Hollinger International, Inc. Securities Litigation 04-CV-0834 ...  Jan 17, 2004 ... Case 1:04-cv-00834 Document 346 Filed 09/13/2006 Page 2 of 195 ..... defendants cheated and defrauded these shareholders through a series of ...... Not even Dennis Kozlowski, the disgraced former head of Tyco Ltd. who ... during the Class Period, the extravagances were funded (in part) by Hollinger...
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USATODAY.com - Lay's death has legal ramifications  Jul 5, 2006 ... Enron founder Ken Lay, who was convicted of helping perpetuate one of the ... Former Enron CEO Ken Lay, 64, whose sunny optimism and Ph.D. smarts ... As sudden and unexpected as Lay's death was, government prosecutors were ... a welcome at the White House, his life took a tragic turn in late 2001.