Hints and tips:
...IAC’s online dating unit Match Group and Tinder seemed to be a match made in heaven....
...Hi everyone — countries such as Vietnam should not be overlooked as the US-China tech rivalry hogs the headlines....
...Strip away the gee-whizz research that hogs many of the headlines (a computer that can beat humans at Go!) and the technology is at a rudimentary stage....
...The predicament in which he now finds himself says much about how China Inc has changed since then — and the changes still to come....
...“Google is not a conventional company,” wrote Mr Brin and Mr Page in their 2004 founders’ letter, and by heavens they meant it....
...As last year’s US congressional elections demonstrated, politics in the country is for pig farmers (Republican Joni Ernst won the Iowa senate race by bragging about her hog castration skills)....
...We all know the stereotype: a burly, middle-aged American white guy atop his hog, cruising the open road, pipes roaring....
...Ms David’s plan for the store can be seen in Harrods’ biggest project of the year, which she masterminded in her former role as general merchandise manager of womenswear and jewellery: the 42,000ft Shoe Heaven...
...“We will work very hard to achieve a good result but sometimes men need help from heaven.”...
...In the spookily named US “death care” industry – the business of funerals, cemeteries, and increasingly, cremation – Service Corporation acquired Stewart Enterprises for $1.4bn....
...“Ractopamine is a safe and effective FDA-approved feed supplement used in the hog farming industry for many years to produce leaner pork” Smithfield said earlier this year....
...“We have a fund for £5bn earmarked for small and medium enterprises, mainly for new UK beauty brands.” Caroline Neville, chairman of CEW UK, supports this view....
....$13bn (or $15.7bn enterprise value including $2.7bn net cash) given the current pressure form Icahn which looks too high for AZN. (* a long-acting muscarinic antagonist aclidinium bromide inhalation powder...
...After all, how can you mark up manna that falls from heaven?...
...A good banker lent against the collateral of short-dated commercial bills, not – heaven forfend – property....
...While 400m or more Chinese have been lifted out of poverty, problems darken the polluted heavens. The environmental toll of helter-skelter growth has been heavy....
...Yet, it may take more than protests to dislodge such well-entrenched enterprises....
...The first quarter saw Affiliated Managers Group purchase a majority stake in private equity manager Pantheon Ventures from Russell Investments; India’s Religare Enterprises buy the bulk of Northgate Capital...
...“Even though I didn’t win the crown that night,” she later told the Values Voters Summit in Washington, “I know that the Lord has so much of a bigger crown in heaven for me.”...
...“We also have a number of data centres, which can be a real energy hog and by having them, we lose certain efficiencies....
...Only 49 per cent of Americans (Americans, for heaven’s sake!) think the free market should be allowed to function independently....
...So why not go the whole hog? This strategy would also have resonance for watchers of stock market cycles....
...At home, the personal computer is turning into an unaffordable power hog....
...In a start-up company, it is clear who assumes the risk: the entrepreneur who often has to offer the family home as security for the new enterprise's debts....
...Literally "to descend from heaven", amakudari are well-paid positions reserved for long-serving bureaucrats - often with private sector affiliates of the very companies they have been regulating....
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