That scenario would include the make-your-best-offer propositions like Verizon and MCI, the '......... knight' attempts to upset existing agreements like Blockbuster's, and straightforward hostile deals, which have been rather rare recently.

Leaders on both sides of the Pacific agree on the need to encourage long-term investments in factories and businesses and to minimize the boom and bust effects of so-called '......... money', the term for funds from investment companies, banks, and currency traders seeking a high rate of return on a short-term commitment.

Zinc just recently achieved a nominal all-time high and along with its fellow base metals counterparts has bucked the commodities trend in recent months, having an amazing run in its own ......... market.

Does Your Boss Play .........? — An account manager thought he was starting off well during his first week at a large advertising agency in Los Angeles, but just a few weeks later, his boss abruptly called him into his office and addressed him using a demeanor and tone he'd never experienced in his 17-year business career.

The eagerness for quick riches is hard to squelch; indeed, after an investing bubble, ......... bubble where investors rush in to buy all over again isn't uncommon.

The IMF estimates money ........., the process drug traffickers use to introduce proceeds of the sale or distribution of controlled substances into the legitimate financial market, to amount to between 2 and 5 percent of the world's GDP, about $600 billion annually.

"For now, let me just say that a strategic ......... point is a time in the life of a business when its fundamentals are about to change; that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights, but it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end." (Andrew S. Grove)

The ......... scheme continues to work on the 'rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul' principle, as money from new investors is used to pay off earlier investors until the whole scheme collapses.

......... prefer low interest rates as a means of encouraging growth within the economy because this tends to lead to increased demand for consumer borrowing and spurs an increase in consumer spending; they believe the negative effects of low interest rates are negligible in the larger scheme of things.

The ......... rate in 1974 was about 7-8 percent, but today that rate is about 33 percent; even well established leadership companies can be swept away very, very fast now.