Word: globalizers
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...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 bid on the table, but Kraft's offer would amount to "the lowest multiple in a major food deal over the last decade...
...Laboratory’s partners include the American Repertory Theater, the Wyss Institute, and the Harvard Initiative for Global Health...
...notion of what he calls ‘artscience’ is, of course, a metaphor for what engineers do—whether it is tackling global poverty and energy or re-imagining everyday activities like eating a bar of chocolate. Creativity has no borders...
...thirds of enlistees who are legal aliens) since 2003 to recruits fluent in Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Kurdish and Pashto. (The Army's website, in its typically patriotic but omnisciently weird way, declares these 450 new soldiers - all sent to Afghanistan, Iraq or the Horn of Africa - "100% support the Global War on Terrorism.") During Ramadan, fast-breaking dinners are regularly held at the Pentagon and other military installations. Because Muslims cannot eat or drink from dawn to dusk during their holy month, dining facilities have opened earlier and closed later in war zones to accommodate their beliefs. In short...
...three reform packages aim to create a systemic-risk council that can impose emergency measures and unleash extra powers throughout government in case of a future meltdown like the one that almost destroyed the global economy last fall. Dodd differs with the Administration in who should head the council: he wants the President to appoint someone, while the Administration thinks it should be an internal player like the Treasury Secretary...