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...show’s date formula includes a dinner where each suitor tries to outdo the others, drinks at a local hot-spot bar and dancing at a crowded night club...
...Would you make me the happiest man in the world and be my wife?” Saenz remembers that she was initially shocked and covered her mouth with her hands. “What can I say?” she blurted out. Her nervous suitor responded, “Well, you have to say something so I can get up.” “Yea-huh,” she said...
...Commission, overturning three of his merger-busting decisions last year, including a union of packagers Tetra Laval and Sidel, and a linkup between travel firms Airtours and First Choice. So the gloom in Brussels must have been thick as a lawyer's wallet when it emerged that another thwarted suitor, France's Schneider Electric, is suing the Commission for more than €1 billion over its blocked bid for rival Legrand. Schneider had completed the €5.4 billion deal for Legrand when the Commission reversed it, ultimately forcing Schneider to sell Legrand for €3.6 billion and eat the loss...
...future: the company has a sexual-potency drug, Levitra, ready to come on the market this year, which is touted as the next Viagra. The prize is almost certainly worth billions in sales. But with a potential payday like that, why is Bayer getting out - and why have no suitors jumped in yet? That's the paradox across the drug industry: pharmaceutical companies are among the most profitable legal businesses in the world, and employ some 520,000 people in Europe. And yet the sector has been behaving lately as if it were in a sharp downturn. The battle...
...years later, Birdie is engaged to Earl Urquhart, a philandering suitor uniquely unfit to wed this wonderful woman. Just before the wedding, though, Earl rashly risks his bride in a poker game, and Finus wins her from him. Fate prevents Finus from collecting on his debt, and some years later he marries Birdie’s childhood friend, Avis, even though he doesn’t love...