Wednesday, December 17, 2003Getting dirty is a surefire way to give a chick the flick, with some getting a bit too literal when it comes time to dumping.
"Dropping a turd is the best way, I think," a 28-year-old
not-so-civil civil servant says. "It's even better if you
can do it in her bed. It might not work the first time if
she treats it as an accident, but if you hit her a second
time, she'll get rid of you for sure."
10:21:45 AM #
Here are some numbers from a Slate article called "Wall Street's Hot M&A Fantasy" (10/31/ 2003)
via [Oligopoly Watch] (which Cote got me hooked on...)The rash of deals helped push the year-to-date volume of mergers and acquisitions to $405 billion. That is certainly better than last year, when animal spirits were caged. (Through October 2002, deals totaled $360 billion; they finished the year at $432 billion.) But by recent historical standards, M&A is still in the doldrums. In 2000, when animal spirits rampaged like a tiger at the Siegfried and Roy show, mergers totaled $1.7 trillion-a reflection of frenzied deal-making and absurdly high asset prices. In 2001, $756 billion in deals were sealed. Back in 1994 and 1995, when the Dow ranged between 4,000 and 5,000 and the economy was far smaller than it is today, mergers were about $335 and $504 billion, respectively. In other words, as measured as a percentage of stock-market capitalization, or Gross National Product, mergers are still pretty depressed.
9:24:53 AM #
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