Michael Dell, the chief executive, and the private-equity house Silver Lake want to take the world's third-largest PC maker private for $24.4 billion, arguing that its transformation into a provider of enterprise-computing services was best conducted away from public market scrutiny.
"If they're protesting on your lawn, invite them into your house," Silver said.
You could have bet the house, the family silver, the car and the cat on Alastair Cook making a century and batting through the day.
The next year, the new branch reached an agreement with the Guild of St. James, an association of wealthy citizens and craftsmen, under which the monks would receive a church, two houses, silver objects and incomes from various pieces of land in exchange for saying Masses, burying the dead and performing other liturgical ceremonies for guild members.
To conclude, we found that different resource distributions affected wounds, body weight gain and physical aggression during feeding in pair housed silver fox vixens.
Were they heedlessly passed down; overlooked amid the jewels, houses and family silver; hidden in dusty, long-forgotten attic trunks?
Of course, it's unlikely that digging around the house for silver could score anyone anywhere near 200 pounds of silver.
Just minutes away, on the edge of Silver Lake reservoir, sits Richard Neutra's VDL II house (2300 Silver Lake Boulevard; neutra-vdl.org; $10), developed in 1932 as Neutra's studio and family home.
Harry calls the McCallister house "The Silver Tuna", the big score, etc.
The formal dining room has a secret panel in the wall, originally used for hiding the house's silver, the listing agent said.
Ordered by the Tory politician Lord Balfour as part of an epic interior design for his house, this silver and gold-leaf panel on oak was Burne-Jones as mythologist, seer and artist.
