| What is on our readers minds? Dear Readers:
Solving last week's riddle seemed to be most of the "heavy lifting" of which you were capable. And who can blame you with all the lousy financial news assaulting us daily? Below are a sampling of your responses.
Jim
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"Facetious" is the only English word that contains all the vowels in alphabetical order.
Steven J. Moore
Wausau Paper Corp.
Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA
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Jim,
Enjoy reading Nip Impressions each week, usually a very frank and honest look at our business and business in general. The word facetious is special because it contains all the vowels and in order. It was unusual for me to see this as I am a notoriously poor speller.
Mike Riddle
Smurfit
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Jim
The vowels in the word appear in sequence - a, e, i, o, u. The "fcts" (read as facts) have it...
Best regards,
J. A. (Jay) Janson
Vice President - Global Services
Setenevici Enterprises
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Riddle - facetious has all five vowels in order.
I hope you're doing well. We got our power (and sewer pump) back yesterday after three days, so we're much better here in the Land of Love.
Best regards,
Jeff Reese
International Paper
Loveland, Ohio, USA
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Old MacDonald said something other than a-e-i-o-u but I'm being facetious.
Bill Hohns
Altanta, Georgia, USA
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Jim,
Yet another great column but wishful thinking that anyone could easily get the information to publish executive salaries and performance on the same page. In Ontario, all public employees earning more than $100,000 per year are a matter of public record whether they are a bus driver or policeman working lots of overtime, a bureaucrat or politician, but nowhere is there any performance review. But I guess that the public sector is a different beast than private industry as we keep voting in folks who often have little regard for hard earned taxpayer dollars.
For the riddle this week, I believe that the interesting property of "facetious" is that it contains every vowel in alphabetical order.
Bob Hurter
Ottawa, Canada
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Hey, Bob, we don't let grass grow under our feet here at Paperitalo Publications. Please go to PaperMoney (www.globalpapermoney.com). Look in "Departments" on the left hand side. Then click on "PM40 Executives' Compensation." You will find there the companies of the PM40 for which the US Securities and Exchange Commission has already "rolled up" the compensation packages. We will add more as soon as they are available.
Jim
P.S.: And, with our 18 language translations, you can read them in the one of your choice!
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Jim,
An observation of a crow in action. In our backyard there is a bird bath. There was some pieces of dry bread on the ground nearby. A crow flew in and took a piece of the bread, flew up on the bird bath, and proceeded to dip the bread in the water and then ate it.
In proceeding similarly with a second piece the crow was spooked and flew away, leaving the bread on the bird bath. Later we saw the crow return directly to the bread on the bird batch, eating it first before continuing with other pieces.
Chuck Green
Webster, New York, USA
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Chuck, I think you have become our resident crow expert. But don't crow about it.
Jim
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