Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

For some quark, perhaps, the measure of its funicity is zero.

The choice of outloading equipment is influenced by the size of ship to be filled and type of material to be handled.

This business of the head-rag irked her endlessly. But Jody was set on it. Her hair was NOT going to show in the store.