A bidding war for Alliance Boots PLC appeared to have ended almost as soon as it began after a group comprising its deputy chairman and a private equity firm raised its bid for the pharmacy company...
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - A new type of data processing
that slices and dices financial numbers in split seconds is
headed for Wall Street. It's a big opportunity for the bright
and a death knell for ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A parasitic worm can make
its ant victims swell into what looks like a delicious, juicy
berry to birds, which apparently eat the ants and help the worm
spread and reproduce,...
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Call it the rule of unintended consequences — drop your guard because one threat goes away and an unexpected menace jumps up and smacks you. And new research shows it even applies to African ...
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As I and many others are socking away as much money as we can into our 401(k) and/or IRA accounts while some are spending their income as fast as they can and putting away little or nothing for ret...
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The first loud crackle tastes and feels like popcorn, but by the time the juices spray wildly in your mouth and the filament-like legs slide down your throat, there's no mistaking this toasted...
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Flush--ha! Get it? "Flush"!--with excitement from last week's low-stakes scratch-off poker competition, this week the Media Mob and the Daily Transom decided to up the ante. What would happen if we...
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Kohlberg Kravis raises the ante in fight for Alliance Boots
