Frankly, "Case" sounds on the verge of imploding as it is, with an acoustic-guitar solo that might be called flamenco if it weren't so scattershot and an otherwise-simple quarter-note pulse, which creates the illusion that the song's center is constantly shifting.

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In a laconic note in Coke's second-quarter 10-Q, the company said the venture "will differ materially" from what was originally envisioned.

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Public pensions, which provide more than a quarter of buy-out firms' assets, should take note as they choose their future investments.

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Rite Aid's changing of the guard came on a positive note Wednesday, accompanying a first-quarter earnings report that included less red ink than analysts anticipated.

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Research In Motion is likely to issue a negative pre-announcement on February quarter results, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek asserts in a research note.

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Boozer scored 19 points, including 11 straight in the fourth quarter, and the Bulls closed out a six-game road trip on a positive note.

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Striking a less controversial note, Best Buy's 30-second ad in the first quarter starred Amy Poehler, of NBC's "Parks and Recreation, " asking a Best Buy employee endless questions about electronics.

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In a research note to clients, Lehman Brothers analyst Holly Becker cut her first-quarter earnings estimates, putting them in line with the company's guidance, and reduced her fiscal 2001 earnings estimates to 16 cents per share, from 33 cents.

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We note that nonresidential construction, even with the jump in the second quarter, is still near its all-time low relative to GDP, so gains there should continue, given the high levels of liquidity in the economy.

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