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...Somerfield bid - they include private equity firm Apax, Barclays Capital and Iranian realtor Robert Tchenguiz - may be getting cold feet. Despite expressions of support from Baugur shareholders including Kevin Stanford, co-founder of Karen Millen, Baugur last week bowed to pressure from its partners to drop out of the consortium. Other Icelanders are waiting in the wings. Boosted by a stock-market boom and a thriving economy, several Icelandic companies are also on the acquisition trail overseas, including financial institution Kaupthing and food company Bakkavör. It's not just the springs that are hot in Iceland, it seems...
...hypertension, and Huntington’s Disease prove successful, the software—public property, as specified in the grant—could have far-reaching predictive implications for patient care, said John Glaser, the project’s co-director and chief information officer of Partners HealthCare, a consortium of Boston-area hospitals...
...CHOSEN. FRANCE, as the site for the world's first nuclear fusion reactor; by the six members of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) consortium; in Moscow. After 17 years of talks and delays, ITER chose France's proposal to build the reactor in Cadarache, near Marseilles, over Japan's bid for the $12.18 billion deal. Expected to be completed in 10 years, the experimental facility is an attempt to produce inexpensive, inexhaustible energy by harnessing the same nuclear reactions that power...
Sources: Census Bureau, Population of the United States in 1860; Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920, by William Thorndale and William Dollarhide; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research; University of Virginia; estimates on slave imports from The Slave Trade, by Hugh Thomas, 1997 (Simon & Schuster...
...market had an element of mystery as well. The buying binge may have been fueled by a single investor group, possibly a Middle East consortium. One rumor has it that the Sultan of Brunei, monarch of the oil-rich country in northeast Borneo, has been buying millions of ounces of gold during the past month. He oversees a fortune estimated at $30 billion, and is said to be the world's richest man. Certainly he has the cash to play the gold market. TELEVISION Creating Static in the Skies...