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...Colony Capital, the real estate investment group founded by Tom Barrack, said in May that its portfolio companies had defaulted on $3.2bn of debt secured by properties that include nursing homes and hotels...
...Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, said he believed Google was not the best entity to help people fight off the disease of addiction....
...In China, internet and gaming addicts have been sent to “boot camps” for rehabilitation....
...This includes scientific research and advice for budding gardeners, the Britain in Bloom awards and the rescue of a decaying country house garden in Salford, Greater Manchester, now called RHS Bridgewater...
...“The quarterly pressure of profits makes companies have to respond to short-term gain,” says Kelly Brownell, director of Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity....
...In 1998, Lehman fought back after Russia’s default and the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, the hedge fund, left the bank nursing heavy losses....
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