It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

It was the Eisenhower Administration which produced the largest peacetime deficit.

This was the largest house he had ever been in, almost the largest building, except for a hotel.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

Reflecting the largest percentage of high-end sets such as consoles and combinations since 1953, dollar value of home entertainment electronics in 1960 was about $1.9 billion, compared to $1.7 billion in 1959.

Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

From 1853 to 1860, another of Lincoln's largest clients was the Illinois Central Railroad.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

* 1965 – The largest swimming pool in Europe was opened in Fürstenfeld, Austria.

In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

The largest successful publicly known brute force attack against any block-cipher encryption was against a 64-bit RC5 key by distributed. net in 2006.

( The largest problem that could be solved without the use of the intermediate output and input was two simultaneous equations, a trivial problem.

The massive skull of Albertosaurus, perched on a short, S-shaped neck, was approximately 1 metre ( 3. 3 ft ) long in the largest adults.

* 1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.

Aachen Cathedral was erected on the orders of Charlemagne in AD 786 and was on completion the largest cathedral north of the Alps.

The largest of these contingents was that of the Goths, who in 382, had been allowed to settle within the imperial boundaries, keeping a large degree of autonomy.

Among these was a raid taking place in Kent, an allied country in Southeast England, during the year 885, which was quite possibly the largest raid since the battles with Guthrum.

According to the London IPO filings, the management team was Philippe Kahn as President, Spencer Ozawa as VP of Operations, Marie Bourget as CFO, and Spencer Leyton as VP of business development, while all software development was continuing to take place in Denmark and later London as the Danish co-founders moved there.

At the height of the boom, it was possible for a promising dot-com to make an initial public offering ( IPO ) of its stock and raise a substantial amount of money even though it had never made a profit — or, in some cases, earned any revenue whatsoever.

Although widely reported as a " hedge-fund IPO ", the IPO of Fortress Investment Group LLC was for the sale of the investment manager, not of the hedge funds that it managed.

The VOC was the first modern company to issue public shares, and it is this issuance, at the beginning of the 16th century, that is considered the first modern IPO.

In the United States, the first IPO was the public offering of Bank of North America.

Underwritten by Bear Stearns on November 13, 1998, the IPO was priced at $ 9 per share.

Imagic withdrew its IPO the day before its stock was to go public ; the company later collapsed.

" ( According to Hoover's IPO Scorecard, however, 31, not six companies went public on the major U. S. stock exchanges in 2008, a year when the economy was much worse than 2007 ( when 209 companies went public ) or 2006 ( 205 IPOs ).

The founding of Netscape was a pivotal point that helped launch the Internet IPO boom on Wall Street during the mid to late 1990s, and Clark reaped the financial benefits of the Internet boom — with an investment of US $ 5 million, he earned US $ 2 billion.

The company was once again on IPO fast-track, only to be halted again after the bursting of Dot-com bubble.

Until its IPO BMV was owned by its members, which were a group of banks and brokerage firms.

The film begins with glimpses of Raymondo, a Linux IPO, Torvalds, the idea of Open Source, Perens, Stallman, then sets the historical stage in the early days of hackers and computer hobbyists when code was shared freely.

Regan was a major proponent of brokerage firms going public, which he viewed as an important step in the modernization of Wall Street ; under his supervision, Merrill Lynch had its IPO on June 23, 1971, becoming only the second Wall Street firm to go public, after Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Other criticism was raised by the IPO ( Initial Public Offering ) of a Mexican MFI Banco Compartamos in 2007.

The IPO price of $ 20 per share was equivalent to $ 5 per share after two stock splits.

The CN Commercialization Act was enacted into law on July 13, 1995, and by November 28, 1995, the federal government had completed an initial public offering ( IPO ) and transferred all of its shares to private investors.

The IPO attracted HK $ 286 billion ( USD 36. 7 billion ) in retail orders and was the most heavily oversubscribed in the history of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

As of June 7, 2006, following the Hong Kong IPO, the ownership of the Bank of China ( SEHK: 3988 ) was:

Other notable GO alumni include CEO Bill Campbell ( currently chairman of Intuit ), VP Sales Stratton Sclavos ( took VeriSign public as its CEO ), CFO and VP of Business Operations Randy Komisar ( became CEO of Lucas Arts ), and VP Marketing Mike Homer ( was VP Marketing at time of Netscape's IPO in 1995 ).

Loudcloud was a services-based Web hosting company that made an IPO in 2001.

The final share price for the IPO launch was issued on July 7, 2010.

The IPO was once thought to be able to raise, but weaker market sentiment dampened the value.