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...Google argued otherwise, saying that because the information on Orkut is stored on U.S. servers, its Brazilian subsidiary has no access to it and thus cannot hand it over. The company asked prosecutors to withdraw the summons against Google Brasil and address new ones to parent company Google Inc. Only then, Google officials said, would the company hand over incriminating data, as it has done in more than 70 similar cases elsewhere in the world...
...announced this January that it would shed up to a quarter of its workforce and that it would shift production toward smaller, fuel-efficient cars. In his letter announcing his resignation from Ford’s board, Rubin wrote that his role as a director at financial conglomerate Citigroup Inc. might appear to clash with his duties at Ford as the automaker’s board undertakes an internal strategic review. Earlier this summer, Ford hired Citigroup and investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to advise the struggling automaker, The Wall Street Journal reported last week. Rubin worked at Goldman...
...earlier version of this story was incorrect in saying that the parent company Entergy was bankrupt. One of five utility companies owned by Entergy, Entergy New Orleans, Inc. filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 in September, 2005, weeks after Hurricane Katrina...
...synthetic form of progesterone, a hormone commonly used in birth-control pills, and it works by by preventing ovulation, preventing fertilization of the egg, or stopping a fertilized egg from lodging in the uterus. The FDA first approved Plan B, now owned by Delaware's Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc., for use with a prescription in 1999, but the controversy erupted in 2003. That's when FDA officials rejected the recommendation of their scientific advisers and refused to grant Plan B approval for over-the-counter use. The acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the time...
Buying wind, it seems, is a complicated venture. Last week the Colorado ski and recreation company Vail Resorts Inc. announced it would purchase 100% of its energy use - roughly 152,000 megawatt-hours a year - from wind farms. But that doesn't mean Vail is dumping its old energy providers. Instead it has purchased "wind power credits" from a Boulder-based company called Renewable Choice Energy, which in turn pays wind farms throughout the country to produce electricity - enough to offset 211 million lbs. of carbon dioxide emissions each year. This purchase makes Vail the second-largest buyer of wind...