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...Kentucky’s state pension funds this year also opted not to divest, despite anti-ESG legislation....
...Vietnam’s surging economy is also well diversified, exporting rice, fish and minerals, hosting tourists and participating in cross-border manufacturing supply chains....
...Selling deathsticks to addicts at increasingly high prices against cut-throat competition and amid universal disapproval is an exercise in managing decline....
...The US government’s vast assets include office buildings, mineral resources, aircraft carriers and national parks. This year it added mountains of sugar....
...Mr McConnell, from Kentucky, a renowned backroom dealmaker, will be the key to any deal, but he also has an eye on the Republican party’s conservative base, as he is up for re-election in 2014....
...The close race raised the stakes for Thursday’s vice-presidential debate in Danville, Kentucky, between Joe Biden and his challenger, Paul Ryan – ordinarily an event that would be expected to have little...
...The decision to bring back to Louisville, Kentucky, hundreds of jobs that had been outsourced to Mexico and China is emblematic of his strategy for GE....
...Consumers International, a UK-based watchdog, points to Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Chicky Club in Malaysia, the biggest children’s membership organisation in the country, which offers discounts on unhealthy...
...But more than half of the deal is funded by the €5.8bn sale of its stake in NBC-Universal. The company is determined to keep its triple B rating. And Minmetals?...
...Republicans were on the defensive on Sunday over last week’s controversial remarks by Rand Paul, the party’s candidate for Senate in Kentucky, in which he questioned one element of landmark civil rights...
...But after a long-running dispute with its union, it agreed to keep the site open rather than moveto Kentucky. The shares dropped 3.2 per cent to $28.63....
...Part of the DVF female empowerment agenda is a kind of universal mothering – she defines herself as “a woman, a mother, a designer”. In her business, she has surrounded herself with quasi-daughters....
...Or, ‘My man drinks’, which in Russia is almost a universal problem. We took the foreign brand, but we made the editorial content Russian....
...Traders feared that if and when Vodafone has to negotiate with Cegetel's majority shareholder Vivendi Universal about taking over the unit, Vodafone would have to pay a higher price....
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