The number cruncher ostensibly warned top execs that the firm was a value bubble unto itself, ready to pop at any moment.

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"We're not ready to pop the champagne corks and have a party, " said Doug Honnold, the managing attorney for Earthjustice, a non-profit environmental law firm based in Oakland, California, that has threatened to sue the government.

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At 52 she is not yet ready to concede her spot in pop music's hierarchy to the genre's younger set.

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The heiress turned pop singer has said she is "ready to face the consequences" for violating her probation.

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All Andersen partners who shared in any way in the fruits of the American auditing business in its good years (and it had more than a few) should now be standing ready to pay their share of the costs of the Enron-related lawsuits that continue to pop up everywhere.

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Billing itself as a "pop-up site" (a now trademarked term) that is "ready and willing to die, " is Recessionwire, which was launched earlier this month.

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