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England will adopt the Euro within the next five years, he said, adding that he believes British Prime Minister Tony Blair will likely call for a referendum on the matter this year that will fail by a narrow margin...
...company’s decision to adopt the name Harvard Bioscience in September 2000 prompted the University to file a lawsuit in December 2000 on the grounds that the name implies a connection to the University and Harvard Medical School (HMS), according to University spokesperson Joe Wrinn said two years...
...find some of Price. They're both from high-rise public housing, which is where Price learned the urban folkways he mapped out in his 1974 debut novel, The Wanderers, that made him, at 24, Studs Lonigan for the generation that would adopt the Ramones. Over the next nine years, he published two formidable books and one that was not so formidable, and discovered cocaine. After a struggle, he put drugs aside. Concluding that he was tapped out for a while as a novelist, he, like Ray, shipped himself to Hollywood, where he made a fortune writing films like...
...survive, the largest corporations adopt the qualities that characterize their most nimble and inventive attackers,” he said. “It’s not terminal to be large. It is only terminal to be slow, unresponsive, arrogant, isolated, bureaucratic or unwilling to change. These are the same dynamics that we confront in the public sector...
...itself insists that it is ready to renounce its programs in exchange for economic aid and political recognition. While the Bush administration has insisted that it won't negotiate before Pyongyang closes down its nuclear program, U.S. allies in the region - most notably South Korea - are urging that Washington adopt a more flexible approach. That may cut against the administration's political instincts, but the president has strong grounds for stressing the potential for diplomatic efforts to resolve the standoff on the Korean peninsula. He tried on Friday to address the question of whether the same is true for Iraq...