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...stand by and be marginalized into distant No. 3 and No. 4 positions in global confectionary," London-based analysts at investment bank Jefferies International wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday. A possible joint Nestlé-Hershey bid to break up Cadbury - with Pennsylvania-based Hershey taking the bulk of its chocolate business and Switzerland's Nestlé swallowing the rest along with Cadbury's gum brands - "would seem to make sense," the analysts said...
...inflammation or other stress responses to major surgery, rather than the anesthetic.) The only research to associate surgical anesthesia in infancy to cognitive impairment later in life was Wilder's study earlier this year, but the literature on the whole in this area remains inconclusive. So far, the bulk of the evidence comes from studies in lab animals, rather than the human population. "The animal data is convincing," says Wilder. "But we need further studies to see if it's true in humans...
Himler shouldered the bulk of the skipper duties in the B division, pairing with crews senior Michelle Konstadt and sophomore Annie DeAngelo en route to a fourth-place finish. After finishing last in the second race of the competition, Himler and Konstadt adjusted to the conditions, rattling off three straight victories in the fourth through sixth races...
...hear constant political debate about these other stimulus efforts? Presumably because they were the result of bipartisan legislation or were the doing of the nonpartisan Fed. That is to say, the Obama Administration can't take full credit for the bulk of the stimulus, and the Republicans can't disown it. So neither side talks much about it. Over the coming year these other forms of stimulus will - one hopes - be ratcheted back, while stimulus-bill spending will peak. At that point the great stimulus debate might actually start to matter. Until then, there's better football to be watched...
That hasn't always been the case on the other side. Since 2003, about 30,000 right-wing paramilitary fighters who battled the FARC have disarmed. But the bulk of the paramilitaries were ordered by their commanders to lay down their weapons en masse as part of a peace process with the Bogotá government. Some did so only grudgingly and have since formed new militias that are dedicated to drug-trafficking. "If they haven't changed or don't want to change, it's much easier for these fighters to fall back into their former lifestyle," says Mariana...