• “If you look at sales of this it's just pretty much a flat line, it hardly ever changes. But on those few occasions where it dips, it is almost always a prescient, forward impression that here comes trouble.”

• Alan Greenspan, who was fond of keeping his ear to the ground when trying to divine the state of the financial climate, noticed that purchases rose when the economy was humming, but dropped when it wasn’t.

• What did Greenspan identify as the perfect recession indicator?

• Sale of Men’s underwear

• The term was first coined in 1954 by J. A. Barnes in his work called ‘Class and Committees in a Norwegian Island Parish, "Human Relations" ’.

• It is a map of the relationships between individuals, indicating the ways in which they are connected through various familiarities.

• What term?

• Social Network

• The ______ Awards recognize both extreme excellence and incompetence in the field of information security. Winners are selected by a committee of security industry luminaries from nominations collected from the information security community.

• It is based on a hacker slang meaning to “to compromise” or “to control”.

• The _____ Awards is meant to sound like the Tony Awards.

The Pwnie Awards

• Probably the best "two letters in one symbol" solution ever. This 'slimeball' is created by Takuya Kawagoi. Although it is meant to look partially like the symbiotic amalgamation of two letters the logo also represents the company's entire design philosophy, as Kawagoi explained. It's both futuristic and organic, designed to invoke the concepts of flexibility and fluidity. It is often shown as a quick animation at the end of television ads: with some extra pyrotechnics. Which company's logo am I talking about?

• The following excerpts are from the April 26th 1996 edition of the New York Times: – "Bill Gates gets the credit but somebody else did most of the

work'.– 'For the first time in this decade something from Microsoft

has been shipped on time'. – 'Regardless of the problems with this one calling Microsoft

Support won't help'.– 'For at least another year it'll suck."

• What was the topic of this article?

• Birth of Jennifer Katharine Gates

• Oceans 11 [1960]

• The _____ defense is a defensive option to stave off a hostile takeover in which a company that is threatened with a hostile takeover "turns the tables" by attempting to acquire its would-be buyer.

• Recent examples include British mining giant Rio Tinto , fighting off an unsolicited $131.57 billion takeover bid from Australian rival BHP Billiton, turned the tables on its rival and launched a counterbid for BHP.

• Cadbury also considered trying it to prevent a hostile takeover by Kraft foods.

• Pac-man defense

• It's a brand that has held its price line at Rs 4 for 25 years now -- the price was last raised in by 25 paise

• The ______Trustees are, till date, appointed by the British monarch.

• Sir Winston Churchill was banned from ______, because he had denounced it as a communist operation.

• There have been several allegations against ______ of Indophobic bias that stems from a culturally ingrained racism arising from the British Raj.

• This company was formed in 1850 as a temporary solution to a bitter feud between two transportation companies in New York. They decided to stop their price war and found a new transportation company which would automatically dissolve in ten years. After ten years, the company was making so much money that the partners did not have the heart to dissolve the company. Instead they sold off the assets of the company and started a new company with the same name. Which company ?

• American Express

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