Word: concerns
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...time corporate executives and directors are heavily selling their company's stock there's reason for concern. And lately they've been doing just that...
...debate over a national bill has been largely focused on the notion that a federal ban might be unconstitutional, but there are few reasons to support that claim. At the very least, the federal government could withhold funding from states which fail to pass cellphone usage laws. The underlying concern these people face is that such a law would unduly restrict their freedom...
...good sense. Part way through a years-long plan to boost its margins, Cadbury has an earnings potential that looks healthy. Having spun off its troublesome drinks business in 2008, it saw its profits and margins both rise in the first half of this year. Nor is there much concern about Kraft's being able to pull off such a merger. Deals involving a large firm's acquisition of a significantly smaller one - revenues at Kraft are more than four times those of Cadbury - are "the deals that have tended to work," says Martin Deboo, an analyst at Investec Securities...
...recent days, there has been growing speculation that schools and universities will not open their doors for the fall semester out of concern that students will extend the allegedly Western-inspired protest movement to Iran's many campuses. The reality is that the Islamic Republic has no one to blame but itself. There is a quote by the late Ayatullah Khomeini that greets kids at the beginning of each elementary school textbook: "Omid e man ba shoma dabistani hast" (My hope lies with you). Iran's latest social upheaval is not yet a revolution. If it does become...
...voter rolls in a nation of only 1.3 million people - an astonishing increase of more than 200,000 voters from the last election, in 2005. "That this election was unfair isn't even an issue, but there's so much suspicion of fraud that France should be voicing concern or protesting if it were really serious about ending Françafrique," Ona argues...