Word: given
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...10/11 odds from British bookmaker William Hill to win the Booker Prize, the shortest ever given to an eligible author...
...surprise; bookmakers considered Wolf Hall the heaviest favorite in years. Winning the Booker Prize carries with it a ?50,000 prize and historically catapults the title to the top of best-seller lists worldwide. This is Mantel's first time winning the award, which is given annually to the best work of English-language fiction written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe...
...also given more than $3 billion to the Japanese automaker Nissan, which has promised to spend the cash in the U.S., mostly in Tennessee, which is in the grip of its own auto recession...
...workers in Southern California. "We're already engineering the Model S, a seven-seater family sedan that will have a base price of $49,900 after a federal tax credit that will [over the longer term] cost the equivalent of a car that retails for $35,000, given the relatively expensive cost of gasoline vs. electricity," says Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla's vice president of business development...
...recent wave of deals, such as Cisco's decision to buy Tandberg, Xerox's plan to acquire Affiliated Computer Services, Dell's pending purchase of Perot Systems and Adobe Systems Inc.'s acquisition of Omniture have given analysts and investment bankers optimism that a nearly two-year drought in M&A activity is finally over, with tech leading the way out. (See the 10 biggest tech failures of the decade...