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What can you get for a single unit of Britain's poor, battered currency? Not much - apart from power, influence and an entrée into the highest echelons of the British establishment. These are the potential byproducts of an agreement reached on Jan. 21 by Russian oligarch and politician Alexander Lebedev to buy London's largest newspaper, the Evening Standard, from its current owners Associated Newspapers for the nominal fee of one pound sterling...
...afternoon teleconference with analysts and press, despite sales figures that were tamer than some pundits had predicted, Cook said the company was extremely pleased with how the smart phone was faring. He pointed out that for the year, Apple sold 13.7 million phones, "well ahead of the 10 million unit goal we set for the year." Cook later added: "Our objective is not to be the unit share leader in the cellphone industry, it's to build the world's best phone...
...does the President's personality or the country's mood affect the parade? Take Dwight Eisenhower. He was a military man with a no-nonsense personality, so it was a very conservative parade. Basically, he said, "Look, each state will be limited - one float, one band and one military unit, and that's it. No big deal." And it wasn't. The parade took just two hours...
...middle of a worldwide financial crisis, it's a potentially lucrative business, one with the opportunity for global growth that few other industries have. "This is one of the few markets left that is surviving the crisis," says Khaled Awad, the director of Masdar's property-development unit. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...Under the government's aid program for Citi the government will share losses on over $300 billion in assets, with a term on the guarantees up to ten yeas. Citi will immediately separate its banking unit from its brokerage and money management units. There is simply too much risk in the investment operations to keep them married to a commercial bank...