Word: householder
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...What is Shin Corp.? It's a conglomerate that owns Thailand's biggest mobile-phone operator and Internet provider. Thaksin ran it until he became Prime Minister in 2001, when he transferred his stake to family members and household employees to comply with a ban on cabinet ministers owning shares in firms deemed to be in the "national interest," like telecoms...
...Parks made her stand in that city in 1955. After that incident, the Dexter Avenue church became a growing meeting place for civil rights activists. Soon, King's life and legacy began to take shape in a public sphere, while at home four children would soon enter the their household...
...conservatives object to his support of slot machine gambling. Although Swann is still making some rookie mistakes-making attendees at one North Philadelphia rally wait over an hour in a cold, unheated warehouse, and then failing to acknowledge the officials in attendance during his remarks-he is already a household name in the western end of the state thanks to his Hall of Fame playing career. A Rasmussen poll released Jan. 19 shows Swann leading Rendell by 45-43 percent, but Scranton losing to Rendell badly, 46-36 percent. ?Rendell can?t change the perception that he is the governor...
...minor presence in the form of Marine Midland Bank, which it bought in the '80s. In 1999 HSBC acquired Republic New York Corp. for $9.7 billion. In 2003, in a move that signaled HSBC's determination to shift into higher-margin consumer businesses, HSBC paid $14.4 billion for Household International, a provider of car loans and credit cards to less affluent Americans. Bobby Mehta, CEO of HSBC in North America, believes there is still potential in the U.S. market. He says strong loan growth in the third quarter of 2005 produced a 9.5% jump in profits for all of HSBC...
...Insiders have too much of a connection to the status quo and the legacy of the company to make the tough decisions that are needed." Executives humored him but cringed when he announced he wanted to make his company environmentally friendly, long before Toyota's hybrid Prius became a household name. "I think that I was perceived perhaps as a Bolshevik early on," says Ford. Other comparisons were not so kind...