Stanley to buy Black & Decker in $4.5B all-stock deal 
Posted: 4:55 pm Mon, November 2, 2009
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[...] Evitts had me — well, right up to the part where he described “Hon” as “a state of being,” a civic treasure of some sort that’s ultimately “un-ownable.” Nostalgia and capitalism usually don’t mix. If they did, the Colts would still be playing football here and Black & Decker wouldn’t be a Connecticut-based Fortune 500 company. [...]