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...like, a huge drag but also weirdly interesting and b) a chance to, you know, find some folks who want a baby and hand one over. That young woman is Juno MacGuff, a misfit teen with a plucky, distinctive view on life (she finds prospective adoptive parents in a supermarket circular) and an idiosyncratic vocabulary to go with it (she refers to her fetus as a "sea monkey"). The movie was written, in one of those only-in-Hollywood scenarios, by the equally idiosyncratic Diablo Cody after a talent manager stumbled across her blog and got her a deal. Garner...
...You’ll have to pay a little more of a premium because I’m not a supermarket,” he said...
...outdone, Dubai's regional rivals have been making some bold global deals of their own. Doha's Qatar Investment Authority is seeking some $2billion worth of shares in two European stock exchanges, the LSE and Stockholm's OMX, as well as the purchase of the U.K. supermarket giant J Sainsbury. Abu Dhabi, like Dubai, a constituent part of the United Arab Emirates, says its Mubadala Development Co. will pay $1.35billion for a 7.5% share of the U.S.-based private-equity investment firm Carlyle Group, which owns a diverse range of megacompanies, from chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor and nursing...
...worth $46,000 to the village each month. And the same effect is visible elsewhere, as fresh flowers, fruit and vegetable now make up two-thirds of exports from Kenya to the European Union, according to the Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya. Half of this goes to British supermarket shelves and is worth $200 million each year to Kenya, where it supports 135,000 jobs...
Such an insight was supposed to be a great strength of Citigroup, which combined a venerable global bank (founded as the City Bank of New York in 1812) with the upstart financial supermarket that Weill, the Brooklyn-born son of Polish immigrants, put together in the second act of his remarkable career...