Word: effort
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...latest turn in Kraft's effort to forge the world's biggest confectionary business, the low-ball offer - worth $12 per Cadbury share, or 4% less than its earlier proposal thanks to an interim fall in Kraft's shares - was never likely to be welcomed. As a multiple of Cadbury's profit before deductions for tax and other charges, the deal is worth roughly a third less than the average for takeovers in the global food business since 2000, according to investment-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein. Granted, the world is in an economic slump and there's no rival...
...arrests, part of a four-year operation known as Project Coronado, focused on the newest of Mexico's five major drug cartels, La Familia--now the dominant player in the U.S. market for Mexican methamphetamines. So far, more than 1,200 people have been arrested through the Project Coronado effort...
...Overall I think we’re a completely different team, especially from last weekend,” Wheeler said. “Tonight was definitely a team effort. We have a really young team, and everyone stepped...
...steamrolled to a win against the Knights (3-13, 1-6) on Sunday morning. Junior co-captain Bret Voith netted a game-high four goals, and also stepped up on the defensive end with five steals. A number of Crimson competitors chipped in to support Voith’s effort, including rookie Max Eliot and Lee, with a hat trick and pair of goals, respectively...
...release last week of the detained KPK members reflects a small step forward in the country's effort to fight widespread graft in Indonesia, but also the long struggle ahead. The police freed Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto, both currently nonactive members of the KPK, after more wiretapped recordings were aired on national TV that implicated members of the police and prosecutors in an alleged attempt to frame the men. "So far it is the credibility and image of the police and the attorney general's office that have taken the biggest hit," says Danang Widojoko, coordinator...