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...Worst hit Monday was Tokyo's Nikkei index, whose 6.4% slide to 7,162.9 points marked its lowest level since 1982. Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 12.7%, its biggest single-session drop in 17 years. Other Asian indices suffered more modest declines, but all were down besides South Korea's Kospi, which was up a modest 0.8% due mostly to an interest rate...
...common and preferred shares. It was negative news following negative news. Less than one week ago, Mitsubishi UFJ downgraded its net profit for the first half of the year to about half of what it was last year at this time. Japan's Nikkei index closed at its lowest level in 26 years...
...company elevator. The co-directors of the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum, who were the lead organizers for the competition, said they were pleased with the effort of the competitors. “I was impressed with the diversity of pitches, the quality of the pitches, and the level of enthusiasm that the competitors had,” said David Kosslyn ’11, one of the co-directors of the Entrepreneurship Forum. “The back and forth between audience members and the competitors was great, as was the feedback from the judges for each participant...
...Harvard still finished with 43 shots on net, more than double Quebec’s shot total of 21. Following Trois-Rivières lone goal at 11:39 in the second period, freshman Rence Coassin put the game out of reach, with his first goal at the collegiate level coming at 16:53. Though the Crimson stayed in command of the game in the third period, the team’s power-play unit still was not able to capitalize on any of Quebec’s six penalties. With just five days remaining before Harvard opens the regular...
...second bar, which Haider apparently visited after leaving Petzner behind, told Austrian reporters that Haider was drinking vodka heavily. The venue was described as a gay bar by several Austrian papers. After leaving, Haider was offered a lift home but insisted on driving himself. The coroner found high levels of alcohol in Haider's blood, Petzner himself later told reporters. "It is true that Joerg Haider was intoxicated at the time of the accident," he said. (Haider's wife is demanding an independent investigation of her husband's blood-alcohol level and does not want Haider buried before those tests...