Yet there it is, on signs and over storefronts, in big, bold letters: C-O-M.
So I went into this knowing that this had to be a big old 10 o'clock--well, its 9 o'clock--drama with broad appeal.
Remember the commercial between Jordan and Bird, in which they played a crazy, glorified game of H-O-R-S-E for a Big Mac and fries?
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But Whitacre's departure won't change the risk--"a big risk in my mind, " says O' Keefe's Coulter--that the IPO could turn into a PR nightmare for GM if its opening price is too low.
McDonald's used to take ideas from franchisees menu mainstays like the Filet-O-Fish and the Big Mac were both franchise owners' inventions but it has been years since a major product has come from the franchisee suggestion box.
Certainly, the Replicator marks a big step over its predecessor, the Thing-O-Matic, introducing dual-extrusion for two-colored printing and a much larger printing area, letting users create standalone objects roughly the size of a loaf of bread.
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Te'o wasn't the only big-name player who will have to wait until Friday's second round.
Big-earners like David Zitelli, Francisco Luna and John O'Neil were off-loaded, while Nick Colgan and Paul Fenwick were frozen out in a failed bid to move them on.
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With enterprise value (stock plus debt minus cash) at just seven times operating income (in the sense of Ebitda), O-I is in line with another big packager, Crown Holdings (95% of it metal), and is cheaper than Ball Corp.
With enterprise value (stock plus debt minus cash) at just seven times operating income (in the sense of Ebitda), O-I is in line with another big packager, Crown Holdings (95% of it metal), and is cheaper than Ball Corp. (nyse: BLL - news - people ), whose enterprise multiple is nine.
Mr O'Neill is right to think that big current-account deficits are not necessarily bad, but his argument is flawed in three ways.
Brothers Niall and Kevin O'Brien hit the big shots as Ireland embarrassed their Test-standard opponents.
He was playing rugby at Brian O'Driscoll's alma mater last season at Blackrock College, but has shown enough class and talent for O'Sullivan to toss him in against some big, strong-running Islanders.
But although there were now only the mandatory four fielders inside the circle, dot balls built pressure and O'Brien finally went big again, only to hole out at long-off.
While many of the big beasts of the union movement have built their reputation on confrontation, O'Grady has not - and according to The Daily Telegraph columnist Dan Hodges, some will want to continue to do it their way.
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Hamilton is a wonderful big break-builder and crashed home back to back centuries in the opening two frames of the final before O'Brien turned on the style.
O.tel.o overall, he says, will turn cash-flow positive in 2002, a big swing from this year's likely loss of DM2 billion, half of which is eaten by Veba.
The notion that Mr O'Connor has turned from free-wheeling arch-capitalist into a latter-day Big Brother is ironic indeed.
Tomas O'Leary is the surprise choice at scrum-half while New Zealand bring back their big guns including Dan Carter, Richie McCaw, Conrad Smith and Sitiveni Sivivatu.
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