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...Orange, a 28.5% stake in MobilCom and a disastrously expensive 3G presence also left it with a staggering debt of nearly ?70 billion, and as Bon resigned last week that looked like his lasting legacy. FT now seems to be headed for a ?10-15 billion rights issue to plug next year's funding gap. But that's a flimsy plaster for a company that hemorrhaged ?8.3 billion last year and ?12.2 billion in this year's first half. Already, in the meeting that saw Bon's departure, FT voted to abandon MobilCom, which will likely throw the German cellular...
...Sopranos has been called the best TV drama ever and the greatest work of American pop culture in 25 years. So naturally its creator, David Chase, wants to pull the plug on it next year. Why? "I'm just concerned," he says, "about this jump-the-shark thing...
...were the biggest beneficiaries of the hub system could well be among the principal losers in any industry overhaul. Cutbacks could be facing cities such as Albany, N.Y.; Fargo, N.D.; and Fresno, Calif. US Airways has said it will drop flights to Saginaw, Mich. Smaller, regional jets may help plug some of the gaps, but the economics of such planes require more business passengers and fewer tourists...
...tech. And you're two years older. You have lost more than money; you have lost time. And the only thing compounding at 18% a year these days is the frequency of your anxiety attacks. At this point, 7% is a more reasonable expected annual rate of return to plug into retirement calculations. Why so low? You're probably--and rightly--more diversified, including some fixed-income holdings (all stock all the time is soooo out of fashion). Diversification among stocks or stock funds, bonds and cash and their equivalents lowers your rate of return but also reduces the risk...
...This is a much more modular system,” Verba said. “We assume you can take parts out and plug some others...