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Yahoo! told its employees Tuesday replacing its board with Carl Icahn’s dissonant slate would trigger its hotly-debated severance plan: which it admits was structured to discourage outsiders from taking over the board.

dis·so·nant
adj.  

1. Harsh and inharmonious in sound; discordant.
2. Being at variance; disagreeing.
3. Music Constituting or producing a dissonance.

The people who think we will have turned in 2009 are wrong. There has to be a respite along the way.

res·pite
n.  

1. A usually short interval of rest or relief. See Synonyms at pause.
2. Law Temporary suspension of a death sentence; a reprieve.

That strategy should become highly accretive to earnings once it gets more widely adopted.

ac·cre·tion

n.  

1. 1. Growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion.
   2. Something contributing to such growth or increase: “the accretions of paint that had buried the door’s details like snow” (Christopher Andreae).
   3. Slow addition to land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
   4. An increase of land along the shores of a body of water, as by alluvial deposit.
2. Biology The growing together or adherence of parts that are normally separate.
3. Geology
   1. Slow addition to land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
   2. An increase of land along the shores of a body of water, as by alluvial deposit.