A nick on its colossal balance sheet, but still a reminder that even Warren Buffett sometimes fails at catching falling knives.
From skimming stones to catching falling leaves, doodling and gazing out of windows, this book will appeal to all the dreamers out there.
So Mr. O'Keefe and Ms. Rossi resolve to "stop the terrible plop" — the script, like the book, is in Seussian-flavored rhyme — by catching falling apples with a hand, a basket, a racket, etc.
Sovereign-wealth funds from Asia and the Gulf provided rescue finance for Barclays, Citigroup, Lehman and Merrill Lynch, assuming they were buying into blue-chip stocks; in fact, they were catching falling knives.In 2009 they will be more circumspect, but will still be eager to put their excess capital to work.
Affectingly, Haupt describes "crow funerals" in which a "stillness" settles around a deceased bird as other crows "cluster about the crow in perfect silence," and records evidence of crows at play — basking in the sun, "sprawled on one side with their wings hanging open... like black-feathered Madame Bovarys" or catching falling cherry blossoms.
After beating the market for years on end, iconic stock pickers like William Miller of Legg Mason Value Trust and Mason Hawkins of Longleaf Partners have been catching falling knives.
Forty percent of injuries due to lifting/transferring patients may have been prevented through the use of mechanical lift equipment, while 32% of injuries resulting from repositioning/turning patients, pulling patients up in bed, or catching falling patients may not have been prevented by the use of lift equipment.
Half a century later, he's still crooning some of the same tunes that helped make him a star--such romantic nonsense as being a prisoner of love, catching falling stars, not letting them get in your eyes and other dreamy notions.
Ed Finn, editor and publisher of Barron's, informs me that "like catching a falling knife, investing in falling stock is often a matter of timing.
We teach them that it is not the sheer exhilaration of running, cutting, catching, throwing, falling, rolling, hitting, and breathing cold clear air in late fall afternoons surrounded by your pals under a distant setting sun that matters.
