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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?
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The Motley Fool August 26, 2011 Todd Wenning	What Does United Technologies Do With Its Free Cash? United Technologies is a well-entrenched company with solid competitive advantages that generates plenty of free cash flow to fund buybacks and dividends.
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The Motley Fool February 13, 2008 Sham Gad	Capital Allocation Part 1: Creating Value via Share Repurchases Let's get some facts straight regarding share buybacks. They're not always the best choice for a company to make.
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The Motley Fool September 15, 2009 Buck Hartzell	Your CEO Is a Lousy Investor Share buybacks prove that company managers make bad decisions.
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The Motley Fool June 22, 2007 Selena Maranjian	When Buybacks Go Bad Depending on a stock's value, buybacks don't always make sense -- sometimes, they're not going to yield the biggest bang for a company's buck.
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