They bought CB radio sets in droves, learned a spatter of the lingo and imitated The Dukes of Hazard from Friday-night TV, while their kids learned it from the CB Bears cartoon on Saturday morning.
Every morning Katja listens as each of her neighbors checks in on the CB in the living room.
By the mid-1980s, the CB-trucker craze had faded like disco into an obscure cultural curiosity.
CB's office, she tells him she is so hysterical she cannot work any more that day.
They are currently top of CB 40 Group A and in second place in the County Championship.
Below is a three month price history chart comparing the stock performance of CB, versus AIG and TRV.
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Giuliani Partners has advised the likes of insurer Aon, CB Richard Ellis, the real estate services firm, and Entergy, the giant New Orleans utility.
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The codename was Mr Mills' Circus because the senior MI5 officer in charge was CB Mills, whose family ran the Cyril Bertram Mills Circus.
That will soon result in more than 1, 000 seed-funded companies disappearing after not raising new capital, according to a report from CB Insights.
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Conservative investing and disciplined underwriting helped insurance biggie Chubb ( CB) ride out the recent financial storm better than a number of its property-casualty rivals.
The drug, related to ecstasy, often comes in purple capsules and is also known as Bromo, Nexus, CB, Performax, Spectrum, Venus, Erox and Cloud Nine.
"Jerry Jr. is a one-man real estate boom, " cracks Christopher Doyle, vice president at CB Richard Ellis and the Falwells' point guy on the Candlers development.
In the years before the popularization of mobile phones, some motorists rationalized that a CB radio would be good to have in the car for emergencies.
However, their hopes of a quick purchase suffered a blow when CB Holding's parent company - Straumur-Burdaras Investment Bank - had its debt payments frozen until September 2010.
One caveat to LLCs: If you're planning to build your brokerage into the next CB Richard Ellis Group, be aware that it's difficult to go public using this structure.
According to consultants CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) the money to be made from the development would not be sufficient to fund the provision of infrastructure such as public transport, roads and schools.
In fact, it c osts more to rent out an office in Shanghai and Hong Kong than it does in New York, according to CB Richard Ellis, a commercial real estate firm.
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He was positioned to be the nickel CB coming into this year, and it was clear after his screwup that the coaches were looking for an excuse to give the job to someone else.
Nextel's phones include a feature it calls Direct Connect, which lets users push a button, like the CB radios of the '70s, and talk instantly walkie-talkie style with selected users who have similar phones.
Yet figures from CB Richard Ellis, a leading agent, now show only a 1.5% quarterly fall in the City in January-March, while West End rents actually rose, for the first time in three years.
However, according to a recent report from CB Insights, the percentage of corporate venture seed stage investments increased to 14% of total deals in the third quarter compared to 8% in the second quarter.
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The industry is reeling this week from new Yipit figures that show the number of these sites going belly up is proliferating, and, via CB Insights, that their valuations are on the decline.
In those days, the must-have gadget of the trucker craze was the CB radio, the method by which truckers kept in touch and warned each other of lurking "Smokies, " or police officers, setting speed traps.
Of the top ten in 2010, eight were in the top ten in 2009 ( Microsoft was No. 11), and five ( LLTC, DNB, CB, GILD and MSFT) were in the top ten in in 2005.
On the public market side, technology firms focused on the corporate market, such as data company Splunk and HR software company Workday, have done well in the public markets, says Anand Sanwal, CEO and co-founder of CB Insights.
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One caveat to LLCs: If you're planning to build your brokerage into the next CB Richard Ellis Group (nyse: CBG - news - people ), be aware that it's difficult to go public using this structure.
Among the largest underlying components of PWV, in trading today Chubb Corp. ( NYSE: CB) is up about 0.2%, Fifth Third Bancorp ( NASD: FITB) is up about 0.8%, and Prudential Financial, Inc. ( NYSE: PRU) is higher by about 1.3%.
It's bruited that the Israel Defense Forces will be moving forward on a plan to light up a new cellular system that will blast out SMS-CB alerts to citizens if and when a missile is fired in the direction of Israel.
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For example, if you have been favoring more economically sensitive stocks (examples include Wyndham Worldwide ( WYN) and CB Richard Ellis ( CBG)), you may want to look at less economically sensitive stocks (examples include General Mills ( GIS) and Clorox ( CLX)).
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