Word: augustness
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...timing of Kraft's offer - initially tabled in late August but made public only Monday - makes good sense. Part way through a years-long plan to boost its margins, Cadbury has an earnings potential that looks healthy. Having spun off its troublesome drinks business in 2008, it saw its profits and margins both rise in the first half of this year. Nor is there much concern about Kraft's being able to pull off such a merger. Deals involving a large firm's acquisition of a significantly smaller one - revenues at Kraft are more than four times those of Cadbury...
...There's something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up.' BARACK OBAMA, chiding opponents for doubting his Administration's plan to overhaul the U.S. health-care system...
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...world that was hit hardest by the trade crash - Asia - has been actively opening up its regional markets. According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the number of free-trade agreements (FTAs) signed by Asian countries has grown from just three in 2000 to 56 by the end of August. Nineteen of those FTAs are among 16 Asian economies, a trend that could help the region become a powerful trading bloc. "Asian integration is sort of a dream, but it is much more realistic than it was before," says Ganeshan Wignaraja, an ADB economist. "There is a move toward making...
...chorus of voices opposing Hosni's candidacy is growing. In August, an article in Foreign Policy magazine called him a mouthpiece for "rampant Judeophobia" among Egyptian elites. "To say that Farouk Hosni doesn't much like Israel is putting it lightly," the piece began...