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The answer is that the catastrophic failures of the largest companies in three industries that are pillars of national commerce could not happen simultaneously if the financial world were not on the edge of disaster. It is impossible to underestimate the psychological damage that the failure of iconic institutions has...
China's buying spree has, however, been selective. The United States was conspicuously absent from its global shopping itinerary. The last major Chinese bid to buy a U.S. company ended in diplomatic disaster, when the China National Offshore Oil Corp. or CNOOC offered to buy the California oil company Unocal...
Svalbard is a repository for samples from national seed banks across the globe - almost every country in the world has one. Their purpose, of course, is to backup native plant varieties. If climate conditions change or a disease threatens crops currently in use, plant breeders can dip into seed banks...
“Ladies and gentlemen, there it is,” Howard Cosell informed the nation during the 1977 World Series. “The Bronx is burning.” His signature stilted, terse cadence and morbid turn of phrase succinctly vocalized a somber resignation that threatened to...
If the Yukos hearing takes place, and if the claimants win, then it's not just the shareholders who could benefit. "This could have a roll-on effect on the other former Yukos executives, such as Svetlana Bakhmina, Vasily Aleksanyan, Lebedev and, of course, Khodorkovsky, all of whom had placed...