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Business Buzzwords: Casino Operations
1. Shares of Las Vegas Sands Corp. fell after the on
Wednesday, after the casino operator said its first-quarter
profit fell: LVS.N shares were down 4 percent at $85 in
extended-hours trading.

ball
bell
mark
market
2. With the Dow Jones Industrials teetering on the brink of
the 12,000 level, Team commander, Henry Paulson,
issued a buy signal; "The president's economic advisers
are keeping an eye on the markets," said a White House
spokesman, revealing that Bush got a phone briefing from
Paulson that day.

Plunge
Poke
Prod
Pump
3. When volume on an exchange is so heavy that the tape
runs more than five minutes behind, the price
interrupts the delayed prices every 5-10 minutes to show
the current price of a heavily traded stock.

flash
quick
spot
zip

4. The strategy places bonds only in very short and
very long maturities, making it easy to shift the average
maturity of the portfolio.

bottleneck
dumbbell
hourglass
pendulum
5. refers mostly to the stocks on the All Ordinaries
index, which is composed of 280 of the most active
Australian companies.

Kangaroos
Kiwis
Koalas
Kookaburras
6. Opinion can adversely affect the independence of
auditors; it is a different activity than obtaining a second
opinion, which has the objective of obtaining the right
answer, and is in fact illegal.

combing
gleaning
shopping
trawling
7. The economy is coming in for a landing; optimists say it
will be the much sought after ' landing' when the
economy slows but doesn't skid into recession, but some
economists now are forecasting a bumpy landing, or even
worse.

slick
smooth
soft
sweet
8. The pro forma combination of buy-recommended
ConocoPhillips (COP) and buy-recommended Burlington
Resources (BR) would create a new company with a stock
market capitalization of $100 billion thereby qualifying as
the sixth mega energy company in our coverage.

bite
buy
cap
corp
9. Having a chest of $11.2 billion gives Google
freedom to make strategic acquisitions, even overpaying if
necessary, and to take a longer-term view with its
products and acquisitions, enabling it to push new
services out the door now and figure out how to make
money off them later.

game
hope
treasure
war
10. are not intended for public distribution: they are
meant to be a rough introduction to the company about to
issue the new security, thus they are incomplete and not
necessarily accurate.

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