Word: setup
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...darn guy has a smile on his face. This, of course, is just Skilling's setup to tell a Dallas audience of SMU Cox School of Business types that the giant is still kicking, and will try anything - even trading "weather options" - to keep itself financially robust. Seems Skilling's brother in Chicago is a meteorologist who's gotten him into "financial settlement contracts," which are bought by companies - like malls or snowmobile makers, for instance - whose business is dependent on the weather. "We're even looking at the rainfall market," says Skilling...
...industry exec notes that Crichlow never lost his talent, just the people he needed to back him up. So it's worth watching The Bridge, Crichlow's new setup with producers Per Stappe and Ari Lehtonen. Their first project is a cover of Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar on Me for British group Five, to be released by summer...
...captain already had reason to smile during the game. He setup freshman Tyler Kolarik's goal at 12:26 of the second giving him 123 points for his Harvard career, moving him past Tim Smith '86 for 19th all-time in Harvard scoring. He led the Crimson in scoring in his first three years, only to be surpassed this season by his younger brother...
...luster to FBI Director Louis Freeh, who is struggling to dispel the taint of the FBI's worst spy scandal. As head of an inquiry into the intelligence disaster, Webster says sympathetically that decades of experience have taught him one thing: "There is no absolutely fail-safe setup that will quickly and immediately identify a good man or woman who goes sour. So our focus will be on shortening the distance from defection to detection...
...648C produced nice text but poor images, both of which it expelled at a turtle trot. The Canon S400 took 20 to 30 sec. to warm up each time I changed a setting, then produced mostly mediocre text and graphics. And as much as I liked the simple setup and compact design of the Lexmark, its overall quality and speed were too inconsistent to push it into the winner's circle...