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...Starliner was launched last Thursday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and docked at the ISS the next day....
...“It’s not like the standard V-shaped recession in emerging markets, such as in Indonesia in 1998 where it’s only a year and a half of real economic hardship,” he said....
...(FT) Pope v pope Ultra-conservative Pope Benedict XVI was expected to disappear from view when he retired and his more liberal successor Francis took over. Instead, he stayed....
...Emma Watford, partner at Bridgepoint, said that Zenith had a proven business model and an “unbroken” record of growth....
...The action opens, as does Henry V, with an appeal from the chorus for dramatic licence: “We have to ask you to be gender-blind, colour-blind, age-blind, shape-blind, but in all other ways perceptive,” they...
...And while Override conceives a world completely in thrall to technology, E.V. Crowe’s Virgin considers one struggling to catch up....
...Plus: why Dilma snubbed Barack; Samsung v HTC; Chávez’s shadow; and Ukraine should fall into the EU’s lap....
...- Roach v. Pettis (on China). - A flat ECB learning curve. - Government debt, inflation and money. - On a wing and a credit card. - Chavez’s gold bet. - Das Wort “Shitstorm”....
...Mr Correa may now be trying to step into Chávez’s shoes. “One gets the impression from Mr Correa’s behaviour that sometimes he wants to out-Chávez Chávez,” said a Latin American diplomat....
...“She is a curvy girl and quite petite, so it was important to show her bump,” says Chavez....
...President Zuma is “a monster”; black empowerment entrepreneurs are “parasites”; his political heroes are Castro, Chávez, Mugabe – “despite all his mistakes”....
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...(Financial Times) Sweden’s Hakon Invest is acquiring the 60 per cent of shares it doesn’t own in Nordic food retailer ICA AB for 20 billion Swedish kronor ($3.1 billion) from Royal Ahold N.V....
...Related reading: Venezuela-ICSID: leaving is easier said than done, beyondbrics Venezuela to ICSID: goodbye (again), beyondbrics Venezuela v Multinationals, beyondbrics...
...Related reading: Venezuela to ICSID: goodbye (again), beyondbrics Cemex Venezuela: we’re outta here, beyondbrics Venezuela v Multinationals, beyondbrics...
...The choice is yours, Chávez....
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...Related reading: Venezuela v Multinationals, beyondbrics Chávez nationalises gold, so what? beyondbrics The banks: Chávez’s next target?, beyondbrics Expropriate it!...
...Related reading: Chávez Takes Steps to Exit Global Forum, WSJ Venezuela v Multinationals, beyondbrics The banks: Chávez’s next target?, beyondbrics Expropriate it!...
...There’s nothing Hugo Chávez likes more than to shake his fist at the private sector. Nationalising businesses is one of his favourite pastimes, with his Queen-of-Hearts-like cry of “expropriate it!”...
...www.hannover.de … Hertfordshire A major exhibition of sculpture has opened in the grounds of The Grove, a country house hotel close to Watford....
...- China’s nappy war: Mamy Poko v Pampers & Huggies....
...Los de Abajo Actitud Calle (Wrasse) The hyper-politicised Mexico City ska punks take up where they left off on 2005’s LDA v The Lunatics....
...Chavez said Sunday.”How do you think, Obama, that I am going to accept that gentleman as ambassador?”...
...Note Chavez’s call to Arab nations last week for support on the creation of an oil-backed currency to challenge the US dollar....
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