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...Anthony O'Reilly He boomed long before Ireland. Why the former Heinz CEO is still focused on premium brands...
Commodity speculators are exploiting geopolitical tensions to put a "fear factor premium" on oil prices, says Qatar's Energy and Oil Minister Abdulla Bin Hamad al-Attiya in an interview with TIME. The blame for high prices - a record $93.53 a barrel on Monday - should not fall on petroleum producers, he says. "How do you blame us?" asked Attiya, who also serves as deputy prime minister of Qatar, a small country of nearly one million people whose per capita income of $66,000 is the world's fifth-highest. "I am an oil producer and cannot tell...
...alone in its travails. Britain's Serious Fraud Office may review documents obtained from the U.K. communications regulator, Ofcom, in relation to its decision to fine the breakfast TV company GM.TV. In September, the regulator imposed a penalty of some $4 million on GM.TV for encouraging viewers to dial premium-rate phone lines to enter competitions after winners had already been picked. ITV has admitted to similar practices. "Television is at a low point," says Graham Stuart, director of independent production company So Television...
Lisa Landry is known for her Comedy Central performances, starring in her own special “Comedy Central Presents Lisa Landry,” and has appeared on the network’s “Premium Blend.” Also a commentator on E!’s “Forbes Top 100 Celebrities” and a contributing writer to US Weekly’s “Fashion Police,” she performs as often as she can, having become a regular at the Comic Strip Live, Gotham Comedy Club, and the Comedy...
...test all of the deodorants. He’s performed at The Montreal Comedy Festival, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, and the New York Comedy Festival. Though he has had his fair share of on-air time with appearances on Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend,” “Shorties Watching Shorties,” and “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn,” he laments about not having made it into the house on the second season of “Last Comic Standing...