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Or, rather, to re-coin it. Apparently, according to The Hitched Chick’s Guide to Modern Marriage, a 2001 Oppenheimer Funds survey found that 54 percent of Generation X women “say they’re more likely to acquire thirty pairs of shoes before saving...
Not everyone agreed. As Ricard buttered his toast, the markets battered his firm for paying $8.34 billion for Absolut's parent company, Vin & Sprit--which was almost 21 times the Swedish firm's gross operating profit last year. As if to suggest that Pernod Ricard had overreached, Bruce Carbonari, CEO...
Vodka, like liquid kudzu, just seems to grow and grow, especially in the U.S., where sales have expanded 35% since 2002. Russians still account for nearly half of the 1.22 billion gal. (4.6 billion liters) consumed annually, but the rest of the world is catching up fast, and global growth...
The downturn, prompted by unexpectedly high rates of home loan defaults, resulted in the collapse of the investment bank Bear Stearns. The Fed stepped in with a $30 billion credit line to help JPMorgan Chase acquire the beleaguered bank.
He'll have waited a long time, at least in puny human terms. In 1964, Higgs theorized a mechanism to explain how two types of particle, massless like everything else immediately after the Big Bang, came to acquire different masses as the universe cooled. Using this mechanism, which two Belgian...