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...1990s, HSBC's business was based primarily in Hong Kong and Britain. Since 1998, however, the bank has completed more than 50 acquisitions, the biggest coming in the U.S., where HSBC previously had only a minor presence in the form of Marine Midland Bank, which it bought in the '80s. In 1999 HSBC acquired Republic New York Corp. for $9.7 billion. In 2003, in a move that signaled HSBC's determination to shift into higher-margin consumer businesses, HSBC paid $14.4 billion for Household International, a provider of car loans and credit cards to less affluent Americans. Bobby Mehta...
...could reliably identify various types of murmurs? About 500 times, according to a study Barrett published last week in the American Journal of Medicine. The students' ability to diagnose murmurs jumped from 39% to 89% after listening to their iPods for two to three hours. A score in the 80s, Barrett says, is about as good as that of most practicing cardiologists...
...rich guy. There wasn’t much to work with,” he says. In his next film, “Price to Pay,” produced by Brad Wyman (“Monster”), Sandvoss gets to play a hard-partying druggie in late 80s L.A. “I play the hero’s best friend and worst influence—it’s awesome. I’m the guy who buys the coke, the guy who fucks the strippers. It’s the actor’s dream role...
...booming aftermarket in therapists and therapies designed to help actors maintain peak performance in the face of depression, anxiety, stage fright, creative blocks, narcissistic disorders, substance abuse and all the other ills their profession is heir to. In the 1970s, actors queued up for est seminars. In the '80s and '90s, others signed up for Scientology. The latest vogue in Hollywood is mind-body therapy, which encompasses a variety of techniques from hypnosis and meditation to guided imagery and biofeedback. Grand treated the actor stuck in that cave with a therapy known as emdr (for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing...
...PRESIDENT AS A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE SINCE THE '80s. Only for the money. I'm not one of those weenies who will drop out of the race just because they held an election and the Electoral College declared somebody else the winner. I just stay in the race and keep accepting cash contributions. That's the kind of candidate I am. Also, I have bumper stickers left over...