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...year-old Kentuckian and the company he named after his grandma's tobacco farm. Ripplewood Holdings might be little known in the U.S., but the private-equity firm, based in New York City, is virtually a household name in Japan, thanks to a $2.5 billion shopping spree in which it has grabbed national jewels, including a bank, a golf resort and a record label. The current deal may or may not involve KDDI, the Japanese phone giant Ripplewood is reportedly negotiating with for purchase of its wireless units. In any case it's bound to raise another round of hysterical...
...year-old Kentuckian and the company he named after his grandma's tobacco farm. Ripplewood Holdings may be little known in the U.S., but the private-equity firm, based in New York City, is virtually a household name in Japan, thanks to a $2.5 billion shopping spree in which it has grabbed national jewels, including a bank, a golf resort and a record label. The current deal may or may not involve KDDI, the Japanese phone giant Ripplewood is reportedly negotiating with for purchase of its wireless units. In any case it's bound to raise another round of hysterical...
...Checks and balances exist. Every yufu user is required to sign the notes they issue. Ultimately they will be called upon to redeem those notes by performing a service for the bearer. The specter of weeks spent washing other people's clothes after a yufu spending spree at the sake shop effectively limits the money supply. The moral: being your own central bank isn't so much fun when the yufu stops here...
...from going out drinking within a 48-hour period before a match, Terry and Morris were each fined two weeks' wages - the maximum permitted in a standard player contract. This was not the first time the players had violated club rules: Terry and Morris were fined after a drinking spree near Heathrow Airport on Sept. 12, during which they were accused of offending American tourists stranded in the wake of the previous day's terrorist attacks. In the program notes for a game after last Wednesday's court hearing, Chelsea chairman Ken Bates encouraged Terry to "ask himself...
...distraught law student on verge of flunking out went on a shooting spree in Grundy, Virginia Wednesday, killing three people and wounding three others before he was subdued by students, witnesses and officials said...