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...doesn't drag its feet. "Our emphasis on enforcement is based on years of familiarity with Microsoft's inadequate commitments and broken promises," he says. The European Commission has also warned that the company may be fined up to 10% of its yearly global turnover - an estimated $58 billion in 2009 - if it doesn't stick to the terms of the deal over the next five years. (See the best netbooks and netbook accessories...
...struggling carrier can ill-afford to lose. Tumbling first-class passenger numbers and a ballooning fuel bill left the airline with a $656 million pretax loss in the 12 months ending March 31. It lost plenty more in the first half of this year too. The airline's $6 billion pension deficit, meanwhile, is among the biggest...
Columbia University's 2009 financial statement notes that the school has racked up a total of $1.39 billion in debt—a level that could imperil the University's AAA credit rating if it climbs much higher, according to Columbia President Lee Bollinger...
Damn straight, Harvard’s got a AAA credit rating. And we're champs in the debt department with a bitchin’ $6 billion! Wait…that isn’t something to be proud of? Oops...
...gave action movies bad guys who made sense again. But picking bin Laden would lead to a lot of hate mail and lose me a bunch of readers. Same with George W. Bush. China had a good decade, but there was no way I was going to search 1.3 billion people on Facebook to find out who was responsible. And picking generic "Chinese guy" seemed like one of those experiences that would feel good at the time but leave me unsatisfied an hour later...