"Clearly there's greater upside potential in the highly leveraged companies, " says William Price, a partner with financier David Bonderman in Fort Worth-based Texas Pacific Group.

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Olga Viso, of Minnesota, to be a Member of the National Council on the Arts for a term expiring September 3, 2018, vice William Francis Price, Jr.

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Ten years ago, on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled almost 11 million gallons of oil into Price William Sound, killing more than 5, 000 sea otters.

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Ultimately what makes Madonna a successful artist is her uncanny knack for reading the musical pulse and choosing the best producers like Mirwais, William Orbit and Stuart Price, keeping her relevant to a young audience.

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Yet Priceline.com , best known as the name-your-own-price booking company with the goofy William Shatner ads, is defying the trend.

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Astronomer Royal, William Herschel, noticed a correlation between sunspots and the price of wheat in England two centuries ago.

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Patent lawsuits are the logical offspring of the shareholder lawsuits that were filed routinely by lawyers such as William Lerach during the 1990s, seemingly whenever a stock dropped in price, and for nearly any reason.

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One of the names from the list often evokes images of William Shatner rather than a stock chart, but Priceline.com ( PCLN) has doubled in price since June.

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