Word: roberts
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...hate business books. I read male trash like Robert Ludlum and Clive Cussler." -On his reading habits. (BusinessWeek...
...change to mark-to-market rules will save banks a bundle," says Robert Willens, a corporate accounting expert. "Under the new rule, you can't mark your loans to market even if you wanted...
...overseas trip as president, Barack Obama has a G-20 meeting, a NATO summit and a roundtable discussion in a Muslim country on the itinerary. But at a morning briefing the day before his departure - as reporters focused on the ouster of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner - Press Secretary Robert Gibbs didn't field a single question about the President's trip. It was a sign of how ubiquitous and rote presidential foreign travel has become. (See the 10 Ideas Changing the World Right...
...times is a coincidence, but three times makes a trend, so Obama will have to be careful about his gift-giving in Europe. On Saturday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs declined a British reporter's request to disclose the gift the President will give to Queen Elizabeth II. "We don't want to give away all of our good news," said Gibbs, raising the stakes even higher. Indeed gifts are not the only petty detail that can soil an international relationship. The British press has also harped on the fact that Obama once referred to the "special partnership" between Britain...
...some 370,000 students were descending on Fort Lauderdale (or fondly, "Fort Liquordale") annually - prompting yet another exploitative film, Spring Break starring Tom Cruise and Shelley Long. But by the end of the '80s, the town had enough: stricter laws against public drinking were enacted and Mayor Robert Dressler went so far as to go on ABC's Good Morning America to tell students they were no longer welcome. As a result, spring breakers were pushed even farther south, and to destinations outside the U.S. where the sun was hotter and drinking ages lower. (See 50 authentic American travel experiences...