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...getting taken to the cleaners. "Goodwill" is the term for the premium one company pays to acquire another, over and above the acquired company's book value. Such overpayment is intentional, whether to beat out fellow suitors or woo the shareholders of the bride, and technically it's an asset (albeit an intangible one), the assumption being that all that extra dough was buying something...
Examples include a speech given in March last year, in which Arafat praised “the blood of the martyrs as a precious asset to liberate the land,” and a better-known talk in a mosque in Johannesburg in 1994, in which he compared the struggle for “Palestine” to a story from the Koran which tells of a peace treaty signed by Muhammad with a strong enemy tribe. In the story, after building his strength, Muhammad abrogated the treaty, and then slaughtered the members of the tribe. The implication...
Babies cost you dearly, no doubt about it. And earlier in life is when you have the least, literally, to spend. But, as Jane Collyer notes, young mothers have more of one important asset in the bank: life itself. "You know what the best part is?" she asks. "I really hope I'll get to see my great-grandchildren. I don't want not to be able to lift [my grandchildren] up because I'm going to throw out my back. I know I'm thinking way far ahead, but I love my kids so much, and I know they...
Harvard officials and other observers said that the pair’s close relationship will be an asset...
With her ability to slap or bunt her way to first-base once or twice per game and run the bases, Stefanchik has already proven herself to be an invaluable team asset...