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The Motley Fool June 24, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	The Game Is Off The Sportsman's Guide pulls its secondary offering and makes a minor tweak to its loyalty program. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool July 29, 2005 Richard Gibbons	Share Buybacks Aren't All Equal In the right circumstances -- when a company has excess capital and undervalued shares -- share repurchases are great for shareholders. But if the company is repurchasing overvalued shares, the buyback can actually be a sign of poor management.
The Motley Fool May 25, 2005 Bill Mann	Their Greed Knows No Bounds How many investors overlook breathtaking executive greed by failing to read their proxies?
The Motley Fool May 2, 2005 Jim Mueller	Sportsman's Guide's Red Flag How many stock options is the outdoor gear seller giving out? And it wants more? Here's an investor's red flag.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2004 Brian Gorman	Applied Materials' Buyback The stock repurchase program sounds impressive, but has yet to add shareholder value.
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The Motley Fool October 28, 2008 Rich Duprey	Don't Buy the Buyback Hype Are share buybacks little more than a tool for management to massage earnings? As for the benefit to individual shareholders, is it all it's cracked up to be?
The Motley Fool October 13, 2006 Tim Beyers	Dear Everyone: Be Like Oracle In the wake of the options scandal, let's stop skewering sensible pay packages. Oracle demands that its executives perform on behalf of the owners of the company -- the shareholders -- before fattening their wallets.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2004 Bill Mann	The Hollinger Hypocrite You want to know what some executives really think of shareholders? Ousted Hollinger chairman Conrad Black calls his shareholders "a bunch of self-righteous hypocrites and ingrates who give us no credit."
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The Motley Fool May 9, 2007 Mike Havrilla	A Hard Sell at North Pitt With a stagnant stock price for most of the last two years and fierce competition from much larger companies, don't be shocked if frustrated shareholders drive this telecom's management toward a sale.
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The Motley Fool April 5, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Borders: Um, Never Mind Borders said it was doing a re-evaluation and considering other financing options barely 12 hours after announcing a $250 million convertible-notes offering because of shareholder feedback.
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The Motley Fool June 7, 2004 Chris Mallon	Shareholder Dilution Delusions Using shareholder cash to stem stock option dilution is a deceptive, wealth-destroying practice.
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The Motley Fool August 10, 2005 Rich Smith	Sportsman's Guide Back on Course The catalog and Internet retailer follows the right path to prosperity. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool September 17, 2007 Selena Maranjian	The SEC May Shut You Up If you want to keep the right to influence your companies, let the SEC know. The SEC has recently proposed changing rules for shareholders -- in ways that don't seem to protect them at all.
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The Motley Fool March 24, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Management Gone Wild Are the managers of the companies you own interested in creating shareholder value or protecting their own interests?
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