Word: holdings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Until now, the trust has steadfastly insisted it prefers to go it alone, even rejecting a $10.2 billion bid made jointly by Cadbury and Nestlé in 2002. It does, however, hold the rights to manufacture and distribute Cadbury's products in the U.S. through a 1988 licensing agreement, notes Kirk Saville, a Hershey spokesman...
...beyond the government's fiscal assistance, Vilsack maintains that the media still hold the greatest sway over potential U.S. pork consumers. "People hear the President or some other official say once or twice that pork is safe," Vilsack said, "and then they hear the term swine flu on TV and the Internet 50 times in a single day." The blame-the-media fallback is surely overstated, but for pork farmers trying to move the merch, less swine and more H1N1 in headlines will nonetheless be welcome...
...bovine guest was the charge of Harvey G. Cox Jr., Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, who brought her as part of an afternoon-long celebration of his retirement. In doing so, he revived a practice not observed since Edward Wigglesworth—the first to hold the Hollis professorship in 1722—and his son, who succeeded him, first brought their livestock out to graze. Cox retired this past June after 44 years at the Harvard Divinity School, where his position was the oldest endowed chair in the country, and where he established a reputation...
...today’s dollars)—then the largest in the history of higher education—the University had intended to gear up for another campaign in 2006 or 2007. But the 2006 resignation of then-University President Lawrence H. Summers effectively put those plans on hold...
Sullivan, Andrew • George W. Bush is begged by "to take full responsibility" for the "systematic abuse and torture under your Administration" and to "apologize for their scope and brutality", but don't hold your breath...