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...That word - "ultimately." Welcome to the philosophical disconnect between the U.S. watchdogs and their counterparts across the pond. Any U.S.-Europe trade war over mergers like these will have its roots in the aftermath of another war, namely WWII. After surviving Germany, European officials were constitutionally afraid of dominant single companies largely because of their potential warmaking uses...
...tried to dig a small pond for waterlilies, but the shovel blade went an inch down and hit rock. Everywhere I dug, I clanged against rock. I called in a guy with a back hoe and he harvested boulders for a couple of hours, until we had a hole big enough to be a bull's grave and ringed with enough rocks to build another house. This field has never been cultivated, for good reason, and, if domesticated at all, is meant for sheep. We once thought about tilling it and putting in something organized, like wheat. We gave...
Once his single is complete, Binkley hopes to race it in the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta on Martindale Pond in Ontario, Canada. But after that, his boat production career is anything...
...suppose some of you are so used to living in a big pond that you may take it for granted. But the sense that there are opportunities out there just waiting to be taken—the sense that you’ve got the world at your feet (or on a string, as Arlen and Koehler say)—isn’t necessarily apparent to a person growing up in a small country. And perhaps it’s just the sentimental ravings of a departing senior, but I’d like to think that that...
...woman I dated for about five minutes back in 1993--and it was old when she bought it. Ladies and gentlemen, for 10 years I've had to get up and walk across the room every time I wanted to fast-forward through the sad parts in On Golden Pond, but the SL-8000 had my VCR begging for mercy in just under 10 seconds. That did it. I swept all my now superfluous remotes off the coffee table and threw them into a shoe box in the back of the hall closet...