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...regulated industry ... whoever owns [British businesses], it's the same rules." To foreign shoppers like E.ON, that leaves Britain "wide open," Van Brevoort says. Scottish Power - which already rebuffed a $19 billion bid from E.ON late last year - and British Gas owner Centrica could both come under the hammer. And after its plan for Suez "blew up in its face," as one Italian energy analyst sees it, Enel, too, may bid for assets in Britain. Is there a perfect number of players that would make the European energy market competitive? "There will be a small number of energy companies that...
...least you can try. Those molecular clocks are still rather crude. "The mitochondrial DNA signals a migration up to 30,000 years ago," says research geneticist Michael Hammer of the University of Arizona. "But the Y suggests that it occurred within the last 20,000 years." That's quite a discrepancy. Nevertheless, Hammer believes that the evidence is consistent with a single pulse of migration...
...Take that hammer and knock yourself on the head." SADDAM HUSSEIN, former President of Iraq, addressing Raouf Abdel-Rahman, the gavel-wielding chief judge in his trial. Hussein, who has made frequent court outbursts, also announced that he was on a hunger strike...
...just as important that we rub it in. Medal counts are a great, quantifiable way to say 'Yes, we're in an unpopular war, we're bitterly divided, and we're embroiled in scandal, but if you get all up in our bobsled grill, we'll bring the $%@# hammer down.'" --STEPHEN COLBERT...
Alex Radu ’08 described the noise as a “huge hammer knocking into the wall every 10 seconds,” which persisted for periods of eight hours...