Meanwhile, back at FBNA Headquarters in beautiful Sedona, Arizona, TED is throwing darts at a copy of the WSJ. "Which hapless company will we take over this week?", he thinks, as he hurls another dart.
"Hmmmm .. haven't checked my email in over 7 minutes. Better do it now."
He sits down at his desk, hits the right hot key combination, and up pops his email window. "Only 19?", thinks TED. "Shucks. Must be time to put out another meaningless press release to get the interest in our company moving again."
The phone rings. "Uh, yeah?", answers TED. [pause] "Well, OK. If that's the way it has to be, so be it. Thanks, Bill."
He hangs up the phone, sighs deeply, then crosses out "MSFT" from his list of possible acquisition candidates.
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