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...But as the port’s losses began to mount, the government in Colombo found itself unable to repay its debts....
...Executives at Vail Resorts Inc may be rubbing their hands....
...She took her name from Mount Vernon, the town of the first marital home in her adoptive state....
...Drug companies that sink fortunes into mostly fruitless research to find life-saving treatments could mount a similar case....
...Iron ore, the key ingredient in steelmaking, suffered its biggest one-day fall since records began, dropping by more than 11 per cent to a seven-year low as worries about the Chinese economy continued to mount...
...Last October, for example, Tony Vernon, the chief executive of rival Kraft, said shoppers were “using stores as their pantry”....
...Tony Vernon, Kraft’s new chief executive, told the Financial Times earlier this year that the US grocery company will increase its spending on Hispanic advertising by “double-digits” this year, after tripling...
...“They are the largest group that we should be targeting,” Mr Vernon says, referring to the growing Hispanic population....
...It also includes software, which has become the main driver of IBM’s profit growth under long-time head Steve Mills, as well as technology-related activities such as outsourcing that make up two-thirds of...
...Tottenham Hotspur and AEG, the US operator of the O2 Arena, have teamed up to mount a surprise joint bid to lease the London Olympic stadium after 2012....
...Edith Wharton welcomed guests including Henry James to The Mount, the Lenox estate that she designed....
...General Mills edged 0.7 per cent higher to $68.80 after the food company reported higher-than-expected results....
...“We are much less of an elected dictatorship than we were” says Vernon Bogdanor of Oxford University. It is unlikely to stop there....
...Participants would be excused for feeling they have been through the mill....
...Mark Vernon is the author of ‘42: Deep Thought on Life, the Universe, and Everything’ (Oneworld Publications)...
...A banker close to the situation said Chinalco had $120bn of funding from the Chinese Development Bank if it chose to mount a bid....
...move was purely a financial investment, but most bankers and analysts agreed it was an attempt to stop BHP from buying Rio and monopolising the Australian iron ore industry, which supplies China’s steel mills...
...The leaf’s top is formed by Mount Triglav (earth) but it gives the appearance of blowing in the wind....
...Japan Inc is averse to shake-ups capable of dethroning management, regardless of who mounts them....
...But as the challenges to mainstream media mount, joint ventures come under pressure....
...It has 24m shares in General Mills, worth £600m. Diageo has some $4.5bn in debt outstanding....
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