Hints and tips:
...Devised by researchers Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren, it says that for something to be funny, it needs to be both a violation and benign. It needs to seem wrong, or unsettling, but also OK or safe....
...Warren Buffett is one of the biggest backers of the company after spotting Wang’s potential a decade ago....
...“Understand [that talking about straws] is exactly what the fossil-fuel industry hopes we’re all talking about,” Elizabeth Warren recently observed during the Democratic debates....
...Carl Berg Carl Berg turned his business links in Silicon Valley, where he ran a real estate developer that has built offices for the likes of Apple and Microsoft, into a lucrative sideline in venture capital...
...Stephen Berg, director of the museum, says such emphatic overseas victories helped cement rugby as the dominant sport among the settler communities across New Zealand....
...a cyclically adjusted PE ratio), Q-ratio (a measure that focuses on non-financial companies) or the so-called “Buffett index” (a measure of corporate market value to gross national product, favoured by Warren...
...There’s A Scott Berg’s brilliant biography of Lindbergh; Babe Ruth’s own autobiography; Paul Averich’s great study of the Sacco and Vanzetti case....
...By contrast, the mayor is part of a more recent category of active donors, such as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who seek more immediate results and believe in “giving while living”....
...MASSACHUSETTS – Scott Brown (R) vs Elizabeth Warren (D) The race between Republican incumbent Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren is exceptionally close....
...Meet the innovators: Matt Webb and Matt Jones, Berg Berg, a London design-agency-cum-technology-consultancy, has several memorable creations to its name....
...Shahien Nasiripour, in the FT’s DC bureau, says the victory is significant for Ms Warren as she prepares to fill Ted Kennedy’s former seat: “Elizabeth Warren dreamt up the Consumer Financial Protection...
...With 94 per cent reporting, Ms Heitkamp is leading Republican Rick Berg 50.8 per cent to 49.2 per cent. 00.43: Back to Boston where Anna Fifield says Mr Romney is making his way to the party hall....
...Berg produces books in the “fields of fashion, design and culture studies”, and is creating an online subscription-based service, the Berg Fashion Library, to launch next year....
...High-profile presentations from industry and political leaders can give those attending considerable food for thought, says Mr Berg....
...Among the small group dressed casually for the golf course are Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Sumner Redstone of Viacom is there, as is Dick Parsons of Time Warner....
...You may recall that in 2005, Australian researchers Barry Marshall and Robin Warren received the Nobel Prize for discovering it....
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