Word: bigs
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...takeover interest in Cadbury grows - and with it, the prospect of a big payday for the chocolate maker's shareholders - pressure on the firm will mount. Should it choose to cling to its independence, investors might expect something in return. Squeezing more profits out of Cadbury, though, could mean cutting jobs. And with Kraft pledging to preserve U.K. staff as part of its offer, any such move might make Cadbury unpopular. That's left some analysts backing the Americans. Kraft, reckons Batstone-Carr, "has a better than 50% chance of success...
...wonder Italians are increasingly turning to alternative sources of information. The last few years have seen the rise of free dailies, handed to commuters outside subway stops. With limited budgets that rule out big-name commentators, they've had to offer their readers something new: straight news. On a recent Thursday, when the front page of La Repubblica offered three articles on Berlusconi's admission that he was "not a saint," the free Metro carried a much more relevant headline: "H1N1: 15 Million Youth To Be Vaccinated." Online, Beppe Grillo, a comedian turned political blogger, has a large, vocal following...
...years we have been told how to exercise but not how to eat better foods. There is another factor, and it is cultural. In a country where all-you-can-eat offers are everywhere, portion control is derided in favor of what is seen as a birthright: to eat big. America needs not just to exercise but to eat less and better foods. Waldo Martin, FRANKFURT, GERMANY...
...ingredients you need to be a world-class douche. But seriously, Brown in the number one slot? Would most people even put them in the top 25? Do Seth Cohen and Serena Van Der Woodsen's fictional college dreams play a big role in the ranking process? Emma Watson is going to Brown; it can't be that...
...most famous exports of El Salvador are rivals. Unfortunately, they are also ferocious gangs: Mara 18 and the Mara Salvatrucha. They have exported their gang culture - learned by expatriates returned from undocumented existence in the big cities of the United States - to other countries in Central and South America, re-exporting their influence back to the U.S., moving beyond petty thievery, flashy tattoos and thuggish violence, to drug-trafficking and large-scale extortion...