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...million ($147 million) for 2008-09, with the division that houses the Observer and the Guardian hemorrhaging ?36.8 million ($60.3 million), compared with a loss of ?26.4 million ($43.2 million) a year earlier, on turnover of ?253.6 million ($415.3 million) - the idea of effectively killing the Observer to protect the Guardian arguably chimed with the Scott Trust's credo. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...European Union has certain measures in place to protect dairy farmers. Since 1984, the E.U. has set an annual milk quota in order to avoid the so-called "milk lakes" and "butter mountains" (stocks of unsold cartons of milk and butter) that were created in the 1980s when farmers produced more milk than Europe needed. This year the E.U. quota has been set at about 134.3 million tons of milk, with the German share the largest, at about 27.3 million tons. But last November, E.U. leaders agreed to phase out milk quotas by 2015, increasing the annual production allotment...
...cemetery had been divided by a cinder-block barrier, part of a fortification some 100 miles (160 km) in length which would eventually consist of a row of reinforced-concrete panels, a second fence and a "death strip" patrolled by snipers. Its architects called the structure an "antifascist protection wall" but Berliners knew it simply as die Mauer - the Wall. It was engineered not to protect, but to imprison...
FINANCIAL REGULATION Lawmakers will consider tighter bank rules and an agency to protect consumers, but little action is expected...
Moreover, the proposed shield was impractical and overly ambitious. Recent intelligence reports have shown that Iran isn’t developing the long-range missiles that the Eastern European missile shield could have protected against. The new plan, on the other hand, addresses the imminent threat that a nuclear Iran poses, which come mainly from low- to medium-range missiles. Intelligence has reported that Iranians have developed missiles with empty spaces in them that can hold nuclear devices. This new system can protect Israel and Eastern Europe from such Iranian missiles in a cheaper and more efficient manner...