His rapid deal-making, a legacy of his real-estate and mining-lease years and his ability to package and repackage sets of options at a rapid pace seemed to bamboozle people, to convince them that anything was up for grabs.
The Rapids dealt the No. 5 pick and a first-round pick in 2001 to Dallas for the third spot.
Russia continues to insist that opposition forces carried out the murderous gas attack near last month - throwing into doubt the prospect of a rapid UN deal on Syrian disarmament.
And given Spotify's rapid expansion, deals with more carmakers are likely.
In December, it signed rapid collaboration deals with Stanford, Harvard, MIT and more to get academia's assistance.
A number of the industries in which rapid-fire deal-making occurred last year slumped in the first half.
This isn't illegal, but a mutual fund that cared about protecting its investors would have rules against such rapid-fire deals.
With rapid-fire deals in nonutility businesses, Wittig turned Western, whose revenues last year were $2.4 billion, into what analysts for a while praised as a model for a deregulated age.
Amidst the usual handshaking and posturing, Xi also signed a number of significant rapid-fire deals.
Mohammed's rapid improvement makes deal look better than it did at the time.
