The Adelphia board was stacked with company insiders who turned a blind eye to self-dealing by company executives.
Valve believes the PC games market is healthy and will continue to grow, but Newell recognizes at least a couple of blind spots for the company: mobile and motion-gaming.
Alcon Entertainment, the production company behind The Blind Side, was hoping that Beautiful Creatures might launch their first franchise.
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The SEC says Mozilo acknowledged the company was flying blind when it came to the performance of option mortgages, but he publicly talked up the soundness of Countrywide's portfolios.
Company executives make their pitches and submit blind bids with no promise of an opportunity to raise their offers.
One of those blind alleys, letting small shops sell books on the company's website, now accounts for a third of its sales.
"We love to invent, we love to pioneer, we even like going down blind alleys, " he told me when I asked what his company was about these days.
Blind opinion surveys provide invaluable clues to what people on The Street really think about the company and what next steps specific shareholder groups might take.
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With backers such as Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, the company developed patented technology that allows merchants to sell goods in a sort of blind auction where consumers don't know precisely what they are getting but can win large discounts.
When he is in Oakland, Mr. Freeman meets with his staff each day in the company's production facility for their "cupping" ritual a blind tasting of all the coffee roasted the previous day, as well as coffee made from beans they are considering buying.
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"Up until now, patent donations have been a cash cow because the IRS turned an inadvertent blind eye, " says David Martin , chief executive of M-CAM , the Virginia-based company the IRS hired to help detect abusive tax strategies relating to patents.
On a conference call, the company said that it is getting some information about the total number of side effects, but is still blind to the results.
Along with all the developments in Nevada to legalize the vehicles, the company released a video in March of this year of its first customer Steve Mahan, who is legally blind.
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