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...The manoeuvre is known as the Texas two-step and seeks to exploit loopholes in the legal system but judges are beginning to crack down....
...Like the rest of the committee, she was initially sceptical that the sharp drop in sperm counts suggested by the Danish study could be real....
...BP’s US boss David Lawler said the project was a bet on Texas, the beating heart of America’s oil and gas industry, playing a key role in the shift to cleaner fuels....
...Texas recorded 5,707 new cases on Friday, the fourth straight day of more than 5,000 infections. Arizona, another western state that has seen a sharp increase, had 3,428 new cases, near a new record....
...former Department of the Interior official during the Clinton and Obama administrations....
...The US Department of Energy said late on Monday that the price war amounted to “attempts by state actors to manipulate and shock oil markets”, adding that the US as the “world’s largest producer of oil and...
...of the WHO; David Miliband, International Rescue Committee president and chief executive; David Rubenstein, Carlyle founder and co-executive chairman; and FT editor Roula Khalaf....
...But David Schlissel, of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, says both plants have not lived up to their hype....
...These include 2007’s $45bn takeover of Texas utility company TXU by private equity companies led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and TPG....
...quite as sharp as Admiral Beatty’s....
...his Texas-based hedge fund....
...Robert Pittenger, a Republican member of the House of Representatives, quickly drafted a letter and collected 45 mainly Republican signatures urging the US Treasury department to block the deal on the grounds...
...Chief executive David Ritchie resigned a few days later. This morning, it has reported “a difficult year”, with “weaknesses in our production process” and “a high level of customer service issues”....
...None of these civil settlements involved an admission of guilt, and the Department of Justice has not brought parallel criminal actions....
...He said the studio unit would probably continue to grow on the back of franchises, such as Pirates of the Caribbean and Cars....
...The Chinese market sell-off abated on Thursday morning, as Beijing rolled out further measures to boost liquidity and calm investor nerves following days of sharp share price falls....
...The price of oil rallied more than $3 a barrel on Thursday, rebounding from sharp losses in the previous session....
...(Financial Times) The US Department of Justice sued to block the merger of US Airways and American Airlines’ bankrupt parent....
...His break came when he was recruited to the Treasury, the department which any young man with Heywood’s sharp brain, and acute sense of where power truly lay, aspired to join....
...Additional reporting by Javier Blas and David Oakley in London...
...Our head of department (my boss) landed a role as an extra, listening to David Lurie (John Malkovich) as he pronounces on Wordsworth’s Prelude (while really ogling his student Melanie)....
...Michael Chertoff, a head of the Department of Homeland Security under Mr Bush...
...Gold’s sharp rise is delivering hefty profits to some of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, including David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital and John Paulson of Paulson & Co, who have invested heavily...
...In the market, the US Department of Energy said that stocks at the key transport hub of Cushing, Oklahoma – the delivery point for the benchmark West Texas Intermediate contract – rose to a record level...
...As important are the Mormons who play central roles at the companies and institutions that make America tick: Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University (one of the biggest in the US); David Neeleman...
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