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...Observers say Moscow needs its allies, such as India and China, to help alleviate the crushing pressure of western financial sanctions....
...(WSJ) Call my agent The coronavirus crisis is delivering crushing losses across the football industry — for everyone, it seems, except agents like Jorge Mendes, who still enjoy healthy profits from the...
...Even if the transaction was completed, the debt load that came with it could prove crushing, forcing Caesars into an eventual bankruptcy. This scenario played itself out more than a decade ago....
...However, the biggest risks were tied to the pandemic, and an acceleration in cases could prompt strict lockdowns again, “thereby crushing the economic recovery,” he warned investors....
...Last October, the US Department of Justice accused Google of being a “monopoly gatekeeper for the internet” and of crushing competitors by excluding them from the lucrative search business....
...Newsworthy but still not too crushing for a company with $121bn in cash....
...The workload for Wall Street investment bankers is crushing, even when the chance of a really big fee is rare....
...Formed 11 years ago from the oversight arms of the National Association of Securities Dealers and the New York Stock Exchange, Finra has acquired a reputation for exercising arbitrary power and imposing crushing...
...Shares of gold miners have more than doubled this year, crushing the 20 per cent gain in the precious metal and prompting investors such as billionaire George Soros to increase their bets on the sector....
...Another problem is that the current technologies focus on tampering with the pill — crushing, chewing, dissolving. But more than 90 per cent of opioid abuse is oral....
...Having weighed on earnings last year, Noble’s agricultural business saw record volumes in the third quarter and improved profit margins for crushing oilseeds....
...Hong Kong is still a long way from changing its rules, leaving the HKEx to rue lost listing fees – even if it is still occasionally able to capitalise on superstition....
...Hundreds of millions of players are familiar with the lollipop hammer in the mobile game Candy Crush Saga, which is capable of crushing any of the sweets in the puzzle....
...Since then, the two buyout groups have struggled to keep the casino operator afloat in the face of a sluggish economy, which caused revenue to drop by a fifth from the peak, and under the weight of a crushing...
...But the trading house profited from soyabean crushing in Latin America, reporting profits of $336m in the quarter, up from $220m in the same period last year....
...The $1 lottery ticket that does not reel in a $500m jackpot stings quite a bit less than betting a week’s pay on your favourite team to win - only to grieve through a crushing defeat....
...The result is more uncertainty for a nuclear programme that has long been squeezed between grand ambitions and crushing financial realities....
...Plans to recoup the $17.2bn of taxpayer money that was pumped into the company have stalled because of crushing liabilities attached to Residential Capital, Ally’s mortgage unit, which the board is now considering...
...If the crushing attack on Stratfor is the new model, we will not be the last. No security system is without flaws even if it is much better than Stratfor’s was....
...Also, how entrenched power hierarchies in Mexico reinforce crushing class barriers for millions....
...Looming general elections are creating uncertainty, with the incumbent Socialist government widely forecast to suffer a crushing defeat, but with the opposition rightwing Popular party still to spell out...
...Some of the most prestigious and richest universities in the world are facing steep budget cuts after a year of crushing losses for their endowments. And it represents quite a turnaround....
...With seven breweries and nine beer brands, South African Breweries Ltd claims a crushing 97 per cent share of the beer market, and 60 per cent of the overall market for liquor....
...One reason why the left believed in education for the masses was in order to escape domination by religious superstition....
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