1. Chaucer and Laurence Sterne picked plums out of theirs.

2. There was no way Guy Sterne could be remotely interested in her, and as for the other way around ... She shivered.

3. Had Guy Sterne chosen furnishings and textiles for this villa himself?

4. In all the confusion Guy Sterne had calmly flashed a credit card and whisked her away.

5. Sterne, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey. New York: Penguin, 2002.

6. They quote Arvind Bhatia, senior research analyst at Sterne Agee, as saying he thinks video games sales will pick up by five percent in 2011.

7. Laurence Sterne was the most radical novelist in carrying out the artistic development of the English novel in the 18th century.

8. That's because Apple is doing just fine without one, Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu wrote in a note to investors Tuesday.

9. "They were caught using steroids to win, " says Nicholas Heymann, an analyst at Sterne Agee, an American broker. "Then suddenly they had to start trying to do it the old-fashioned way.

10. Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. ( Laurence Sterne, British Dramatist.

11. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne expresses two religious themes: forbearance and charity.

12. Melco CEO Lawrence Ho, son of Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho, dismissed the Sterne Agee report as "total nonsense," according to the Sydney Morning Herald, citing an analyst call.

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13. "'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, —and of obstinacy in a bad one" (Laurence Sterne).

14. 'This is a shot for RIM to be number three' in smartphones after Google and Apple, says Shaw Wu, an analyst at Sterne Agee.

15. 'Dividends make sense to people,' says Jerry Harris, president of asset management at Sterne Agee, who adds historical stock-market returns have been driven by dividends.