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...Carlos Brito. InBev has pledged that the company's North American headquarters would remain in St. Louis, and that none of Anheuser's 12 U.S. breweries would be closed. The two brewers say their merger will generate annual savings of $1.5 billion from measures like better managing the supply chain and that layoffs will be kept to a minimum because there is little current overlap between the two businesses...
...brokers, on the other hand, is unknown. The FAA says 2,000 to 5,000; some aviation-industry estimates put the number at 20,000. Nobody knows, because brokers are unlicensed, unregistered, untrained--and ungoverned by the FAA. They are the broken link in the FAA's regulatory chain. We found that bad brokers would simply close up shop, move to another building or town, and resume business under a new name...
...binges--as new, tougher mortgage rules from the Federal Reserve aim to do. But at the same time, many on Wall Street and in Washington fear that the correction could careen into an economic cataclysm. That's why the Fed has intervened at the top of the financial food chain by cutting interest rates and bankrolling a shotgun takeover of the investment bank Bear Stearns. And it's why there's been lots of talk in Washington about doing something--anything--to slow the tide of mortgage foreclosures...
...tallest skyscraper help draw millions of visitors to Dubai each year. But for many seasoned travelers, they make a trip to the city-state sound as alluring as a holiday in Hell. Dubai's breathless p.r. machine neglects to mention the construction din, monstrous traffic jams, and overpriced chain hotels that blast synthetic music by the pool...
Shelf space in a chain like Whole Foods is the holy grail for culinary entrepreneurs. Most fail. Whole Foods evaluates hundreds of new products every month and rejects about 85% of them...