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Roper ['rəʊpə(r)]

n. 制绳者, <美>用索套捕牲口的牧人,诱人进入赌场者

roper

[ noun ]

a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game)

<noun.person>

a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses

<noun.person>

a craftsman who makes ropes

<noun.person>

Roper \Rop"er\, n.
1. A maker of ropes. --P. Plowman.

2. One who ropes goods; a packer.

3. One fit to be hanged. [Old Slang] --Douce.

General Electric Co. said it completed the acquisition of Roper Corp. for $507.6 million, or $54 a share.
Roper, who advised the Florio campaign last year, said that in the U.S. Senate race, long-shot GOP challenger Christine Todd Whitman has been unable to force Democratic incumbent Bill Bradley to speak out about the Florio taxes.
"Domestic fights, or armed robberies," he recalled in a recent interview. "Nothing like these." Both Hooks and Roper appeared to have been chosen at random and neither knew their attackers, police say.
Whirlpool has said it would expand Roper from a maker of ranges into a producer and marketer of a full line of appliances.
Roper's directors initially supported the Whirlpool offer, but Tuesday urged stockholders to accept the GE offer.
"Once primarily non-profit and hospital-based, the laboratory industry now is composed largely of profit-making independent and large commercial ventures," Dr. Roper said.
"It's interesting that they all occurred at this time, but I think it's just a coincidence," says Eric Gleacher, head of mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley & Co., which represented Whirlpool in the Roper deal.
Although the damages sought have never been quantified, a figure of Pounds 160m was thought probable. However, Mr Simon Roper of Oswald Hickson, solicitors for the members' agents, said the ruling had reduced both the scale and the scope of the trial.
Roper has been criticized on the one hand for releasing the data at all and on the other for organizing it in a way that makes it impossible to use as a simplistic way to "rank" hospitals.
Since then GE has purchased gas stoves from four companies, including Roper, said GE spokesman Jack Batty from the company's headquarters in Fairfield, Conn.
GE didn't have any comment on Whirlpool's determination to pursue Roper.
William L. Roper, the financing agency's administrator, estimates Medicaid may spend $50 million on AZT in 1987, and $150 million in 1988.
Whirlpool, in a statement issued from its Benton Harbor, Mich., headquarters, said the company will continue to pursue Roper.
"The Roper merger is of vital strategic importance to Whirlpool," Mr. Whitwam said, "and we have no intention of allowing GE to disrupt our definitive agreement."
The survey by The Roper Organization showed 84 percent of those questioned believe it is not good for the United States for foreign companies to buy up more and more real estate.
The new ad cites a new survey by Good Housekeeping and the Roper Organization.
"When Mr. Cook again expressed Roper's commitment to the Whirlpool acquisition, Mr. Schipke terminated the call by asserting that Roper would hear further from GE," the suit said.
"When Mr. Cook again expressed Roper's commitment to the Whirlpool acquisition, Mr. Schipke terminated the call by asserting that Roper would hear further from GE," the suit said.
Roper's stock soared $11 to $48.375 a share in heavy trading.
His deep cover is meticulously and successfully developed to the point where he is trusted by Roper as front man for his big arms deal with the Columbian drugs cartel.
Telephone 726611, Fax 721246. The director-general of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission is Mr John Roper, Valley House, Hirzel Street, St Peter Port.
Roper said all the information had been available at the state level if people had "been willing to work hard enough to get it" but that HCFA felt it was worthwile to compile it in a single report.
Roper said its board reviewed both offers before recommending Whirlpool's $50-a-share cash tender offer to shareholders.
The test, called a mammogram, and other cancer screening tests are not being used enough, said Maryann Roper, acting deputy director of the National Cancer Institute.
For example, the survey findings, which were analyzed by the Roper Organization, showed that 24% of the participants are in executive and professional occupations, compared with 18% of the general public.
On Friday, Whirlpool filed suit charging that GE tried to "sabotage the definitive merger agreement Whirlpool reached with Roper's board of directors last month.
Medical researchers and drug manufacturers on Friday urged Roper not to ban imported lab monkeys, saying that could set back efforts to find cures for AIDS and other serious diseases.
"With our complementary KitchenAid, Whirlpool and Roper brands, Whirlpool plans to compete vigorously in all segments of the major home appliance market," Whitwam said.
GE said it made the offer after learning last week from Securities and Exchange Commission filings by Whirlpool that Roper agreed to the Whirlpool merger under threat of a "unilateral takeover."
We attained that objective and we have full intentions to proceed with our plans to introduce a full line of Roper home appliances," Mr. Whitwam said.

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