Word: priore
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...wrongdoing, French media reports say French police searches of Astana's hotel and garbage cans in the area had turned up unspecified "evidence" to support the allegations of performance-enhancement cheating. The shock of that news was so great that French and German riders staged a sit-in prior to the start of Wednesday's leg to protest the ill repute such purported practices have left both the sport and the Tour...
...volume of M&A deals in the U.S. alone surged to $1.49 trillion in 2006--a level not seen since the tech boom in the late 1990s, when annual activity topped the $1.5 trillion mark just prior to the dotcom crash, according to market-research group Dealogic. And it's only halftime. Through early July, M&A volume totaled $1.17 trillion, up from $761.5 billion during the same period a year ago, the first time that M&A volume has topped the $1 trillion mark in the first six months of a year. Private equity accounted for about...
...fact that soft news is far more popular than hard news was a relatively unconfirmed discovery prior to the survey, Patterson said. Each respondent was asked a few questions about current events at the time of their response; on issues ranging from the British government’s planned withdrawal of troops from Iraq to the death of Anna Nicole Smith...
With Hizballah adopting a low profile, UNIFIL has closely eyed the growing threat in Lebanon posed by groups inspired by Al-Qaeda. Graziano admitted that UNIFIL regularly receives warnings of imminent attacks, but "the level of credibility of the warning is not always very high". There was no prior warning, however, to the June 24 car bomb attack against an armored patrol of Spanish peacekeepers. The remote-controlled explosion knocked an armored personnel carrier (APC) off the road, killing six soldiers in what a Western military officer familiar with the investigation said was an "extraordinarily sophisticated" operation...
...grant the province autonomy but not full independence.) European diplomats have raised the possibility of renewing "proximity" talks, starting in September, between Kosovo Albanian and Serbian leaders from Belgrade - thus dealing with part of Russia's requirement. (The two sides, however, have already spent 14 months in inconclusive talks prior to the publication of Ahtisaari's plan.) Under another proposal, to be decided on later this month, talks may be convened somewhere in Europe that would include all interested parties, similar to the 1995 meetings in Dayton, Ohio that ended the Bosnian...