• Those firms are working hard to strip down their cost bases by shedding employees and minimising the risk of trading blow-ups over the next year.

    ECONOMIST: Hedge funds in trouble

  • Ian Poulter's hopes of a first major win suffered a blow though after his first over-par round of the tournament.

    BBC: Westwood eyes final Masters push

  • With Bell looking at ease on his home ground, the fourth-wicket pair added 62 before South Africa struck the all-important blow in the 41st over.

    BBC: England toil as S Africa dominate

  • When our Twitter timeline started lighting up with chatter over Blow's anti-Mormon tweet, we wanted to see what it was he said.

    WSJ: 'Right Wing Lice'

  • To try and soften this terrific blow, Schering-Plough decided to sell Claritin over the counter, a move that could keep generics out of the prescription market.

    FORBES: Schering Gets Plowed

  • The spinner struck a vital blow in his next over when he had the well-set Ashraful caught by close-in fielder Mubarak.

    BBC: Clean sweep for Sri Lanka

  • Ten years ago this week, Cavanaugh looked to blow off steam over the holiday weekend by taking two Jani-King employees and Colony Robinson, his 27-year old girlfriend, to the Caribbean.

    FORBES: Tax Court: Corporation's $2.3 Million Settlement Payment For Wrongful Death Of Shareholder's Girlfriend Was Not A "Business Expense"

  • That includes a refusal to relinquish control over finances a potential blow to their self-esteem and sense of power.

    FORBES: L'Oreal Heiress Liliane Bettencourt Is A Tragic Example Of How Alzheimer's Impairs Financial Judgment

  • The score had moved on to 91-2 in the 13th over when Tredwell struck another blow as a beautifully flighted delivery clipped the edge of Darren Bravo's bat and was snaffled low down by Strauss at slip.

    BBC: Cricket World Cup: England win keeps Cup hopes alive

  • United struck a hammer blow a minute before the break as Ajose's George Best-like chip over stranded goalkeeper Pacheco doubled the lead.

    BBC: United win Milk Cup premier title

  • With Adele belting it out over the sound system, rising above the roar of nine blow-dryers on full blast, women ages 21 to 62 are spun out sleek and smooth.

    FORBES: Drybar: How One Woman And A Hair Dryer Became A $20 Million Operation

  • Welsh hopes of a result took a significant blow when captain Craig Bellamy withdrew from the side because of concerns over his new-born baby daughter.

    BBC: Wales 0-2 Germany

  • As a result, young people's outrage over what is happening in the Muslim world is creating a "blow-back" effect as they take violent action in the West, he said, as seen with the Boston bombings.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • We worked very hard to get to this point - over the course of seven weeks we probably only had one chance to blow off steam.

    BBC: Nathan Bracken column

  • Jeff's fear of a mole may be well grounded, for the Mounties hope to strike a blow to Canada's cannabis business with a string of big, high-profile busts over the next several years.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Crowd favourite Younes El Aynaoui , the tenth seed, delivered another blow to Argentina with a 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 win over Gaston Etlis while 13th seed Max Mirnyi eased past Spanish qualifier Marc Lopez 6-4, 6-3.

    BBC: Nadal maintains form

  • Southeast Asia does blow a cloud over our stock market, making earnings forecasts iffy for prime multinationals like Coca-Cola, 3M, Boeing.

    FORBES: Stocks for cowardly lions

  • If you asked most people in the financial markets that question they would point to two things: another blow-up in the eurozone crisis, and the lurking fear that US budget policies are heading over a "fiscal cliff".

    BBC: Gauging the fiscal cliff

  • Leeds also lost Hall with a dead leg, while Bulls stand-off Ben Jeffries was helped off in the second half after taking a heavy blow to the head but, in an ill-tempered West Yorkshire derby, tensions again boiled over at the end when punches were traded between both sets of players.

    BBC: Leeds Rhinos 12-18 Bradford Bulls

  • America had renewed hope when Stanfill bundled over from his own tap penalty but Vaki struck the decisive blow with 10 minutes left - leaving the Eagles ruing their wasted opportunities.

    BBC: USA 15-25 Tonga

  • In a country that used to blow hot and cold over America, Mr Lee has never wavered even when he faced anti-American riots over beef in 2008.

    ECONOMIST: America and South Korea

  • At the end of a two-day summit in Brussels, Silvio Berlusconi showed optimism in face of a double blow to Europe, first over the Constitution and now over the budget, and stressed that the European Council ended "with neither winners nor losers".

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | EU's 'Waterloo' summit angers press

  • James partially dislocated a shoulder during Wales' win over the USA while Jones took a blow to the head in the first minute of Wales' 48-15 win.

    BBC: Jones and James poised for scans

  • From its new headquarters in Yemen AQAP has made serious efforts to attack the United States, sending the "underwear bomber" to blow up Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 and also smuggling bombs on to U.S.-bound cargo shipments in October 2010.

    CNN: Should we still fear al Qaeda?

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