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...Virgin Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow, that's the catch, baby. Suicide doors, [MUTED] around and crash, baby. I do the dash, baby....
...New Hampshire senator Kelly Ayotte, Hassan’s Republican rival, refusing to say twice if she trusted Trump having access to the nuclear codes....
...(FT) Murdoch v Trump: Fox and The Hair Donald Trump has gone to war with an unlikely enemy....
...He describes turning up to the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 wearing “a V-neck tennis sweater in the traditional white, maroon and black, over white pants”....
...Robert Kelly Ortberg, executive vice-president for government systems in Rockwell Collins, the producer of electronics to the air industry, said: “Just like every other US company, we are looking to the...
...Overall, Blackstone Capital Partners V was up $2.4bn, or nearly 20 per cent, in the first quarter, its letter said. TPG V was up 0.5 per cent, or $40m, investors were told....
...Back on earth, Gavin and Kelly were able to reprogramme the landing craft to tow the crippled command module 300,000 miles round the moon and earthwards....
...Thus far, the economic recovery is tepid, and we expect record high hedged jet fuel prices,” said Gary Kelly, chief executive....
...The deal comes three months after S&N failed to complete a transformational deal with its US rival Biomet which left it vulnerable to a takeover by larger rivals – Johnson & Johnson, Stryker and Zimmer....
...Last December S&N tried to acquire US rival Biomet, but was outbid by a private equity consortium which included included Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, KKR and Texas Pacific, along with one of Biomet’s founders...
...Last year, S&N was frustrated in its bid to buy Biomet, a US rival, by a group of private equity companies. Since then, it has been seen as a possible future bid target....
...Smith & Nephew, the UK medical device maker which has looked vulnerable to a bid since failing to buy Biomet last year, has agreed to buy Plus Orthopedics Holding, a privately-owned Swiss group, for SFr1.09bn...
...Private equity firms are in pole position to buy orthopedics maker Biomet, reports the Wall Street Journal....
...“As announced on 2nd November 2006, Smith & Nephew plc has been in discussions with the Board of Biomet Inc with a view to combining the two businesses....
...Based in Warsaw, Indiana, Biomet is best known for its orthopedic products, such as joint replacements and spinal products....
...We’ve got you a splendid new acquisition – Plus Orthopedics. It’s Swiss – beautifully engineered, as you’d expect from the clock people....
...V is for virgin, judged best new client for Virgin Mobile, Virgin Trains and Virgin Mobile Australia. W is for why not?...
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