Buffett set a specific price-to-book-value target for the buybacks, saying Berkshire ( NYSE: BRK-B) would buy back its own shares but only at prices up to a 10% premium over the then-current book value of Berkshire shares.
According to him, Dr Afridi did get suspicious by late April 2011 that there might be a high-value target in the Abbottabad compound, but he still didn't know who it was.
Last week, France called for the European Central Bank (ECB) to consider setting a target for the single currency - steering it lower when the value became too high.
It's likely that you will have a quiet night and you can use a price incentive or value promotion to attract customers - but as soon as you target a group of people in a serious way (through advertising), you are likely to be thought of as a restaurant catering just for that market.
If OSI Shares fail to appreciate significantly on their own, Reid notes that the company, with its low price-to-earnings, sales and book value, would make an attractive takeover target.
This addresses a major concern with the repricing of stock options after company value falls: Repricing rewards the CEO for failure by giving him a lower stock-price target to reach.