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Mathergrad then declared war on Kirkland House, demanding that it cede strategic territory along DeWolfe Street and return the Adams House gong, which had gone missing...
...We’re willing to cede way more to advertising,” said Magill, “while trying to maintain the magazine’s independence...
...Israel, the carnage has boosted public support for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for withdrawing from Gaza. Hard-liners in his Likud Party, reluctant to cede territory to the Palestinians, nixed the proposal early this month. But in a national poll taken last week, 79% of Israelis backed the plan, which would at least take soldiers out of the line of fire in Gaza. Sharon may yet capitalize on that support...
...games take in more money than movies. An electrical engineer by training, he joined Sony in 1975, but his gut-check moment didn't arrive until 1990, when Nintendo backed out of a partnership with Sony to build a new video-game machine. Most in the company wanted to cede the battlefield, but Kutaragi believed Sony could go it alone; he led an in-house splinter cell that developed a new game console from scratch. The PlayStation debuted in 1994. By the end of the decade it was generating 40% of Sony's operating profit...
...ttgers, head of the Christian Democratic Union in North Rhine Westphalia, is to create a strong federal domestic intelligence agency and put the 16 state offices under its control, then give the BKA greater investigative powers and move the agency to Berlin. The trouble is, the states refuse to cede any power to the federal government. State officials say what's needed is improved cooperation, not centralization. At the end of last year, BKA president Ulrich Kersten proposed moving his team to Berlin, sparking massive protests by employees and local politicians who feared the economic consequences. Schily removed Kersten from...