OLPC's XO laptops currently run on chips from Intel competitor Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: ADM - news - people ).
Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ), the world's biggest ethanol maker, can't brew it fast enough because U.S. government mandates are creating huge demand.
Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ) is building a factory in Clinton, Iowa that will annually crank out 50, 000 tons of plastic naturally produced by corn-eating bacteria.
But clients, like Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ), Prudential Financial (nyse: PRU - news - people ) and Booz Allen Hamilton , know it's a small fee in the face of a potentially huge payoff.
Ethanol was making investors giddy last year when oil prices were high, corn prices were low and ethanol producers like Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ) and small farmer cooperatives were reaping huge profits distilling corn mash into fuel.
The 53-year-old former executive vice president of Chevron (nyse: CVX - news - people ) has no relation to anyone in the Andreas family, which has run ADM (nyse: ADM - news - people ) for the last four decades.
One former Washington insider recently told me that Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ), the grain processing giant and one of the country's largest ethanol producers, lobbied heavily for the blender's credit of 51 cents per gallon that ethanol receives.
Starting in 2002, receipts from user fees began to drop significantly, thanks largely to the impact of a slower economy and increased sales of gasahol, an Ethanol-based fuel that isn't taxed for the Highway Trust Fund and is heavily subsidized--thanks to the farm lobby and the efforts of Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ).
If the laws change, large beneficiaries might include large agricultural groups like Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ) and ConAgra Foods (nyse: CAG - news - people ) as potential growers or distributors and liquor businesses like Constellation Brands (nyse: STZ - news - people ) and Allied Domecq (nyse: AED - news - people ), which understand the distribution of intoxicants.
Adm Na Tchuto - whose assets were frozen by Washington in 2010 - was arrested after a failed coup in Guinea-Bissau in December 2011, but released in June.
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But as improving conditions allow emerging economies around the world to start eating better, global food suppliers like ADM appear positioned for long-term growth.
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Investors in grain-processing giant Archer-Daniels-Midland ( ADM) think corn is king.
FORBES: ADM Should Pop Again If Lawmakers Renew Ethanol Producer Tax Credits
Bullish action in ADM options and the bump-up in shares follow a study released by Purdue University economists on Tuesday showing, among other things, that high food prices are expected to persist for the next one to two years.
The three bulk carriers are the first new shipbuilding order placed by ADM designed to accommodate new post-Panamax needs.
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Allen Andreas had been all but handpicked by his uncle for the top job when he took over in the wake of a price-fixing scandal at ADM.
To get to know ADM, she has planned a town-hall meeting with employees for Monday, her first day on the job.
According to Mitsubishi the ADM vessels will also feature a high-efficiency hull and a newly designed bow shape that will reduce wave-making resistances.
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The chiefs of staff for the four military services held an hour-long meeting on Tuesday to give Adm.
Shares of companies like VeraSun Energy (nyse: VSE - news - people ), Pacific Ethanol and ADM, which had been beaten down by as much as 60%, quickly began recovering when news of the higher mandates broke.
While Buffett was speaking in generalities, it got me wondering how ADM, GD, and EXC stacked up against my Buffett-inspired Guru Strategy, which is based on the approach Buffett used to build his empire (a strategy that Mary Buffett, his former colleague and daughter-in-law, disclosed in her book Buffettology).
Even after the policy had been laid down, the bulk of the senior U.S. military leadership -- the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm.
By mid-March the board was down to three finalists, all of them from outside ADM, hinted one person familiar with the matter.
But ADM always faces unpredictable price swings buying agricultural commodities from growers, and selling processed goods to end-users.
FORBES: ADM Should Pop Again If Lawmakers Renew Ethanol Producer Tax Credits
The French Chief of Defence Staff, Adm Edouard Guillaud, told French radio that he believed Mr Allex was already dead and accused al-Shabab of "media manipulation".
BBC: Somalia's al-Shabab 'to kill' French hostage Denis Allex
So, ADM shares softened lately, in part over the subsidies and in part because it reported disappointing fiscal first-quarter earnings a month ago.
FORBES: ADM Should Pop Again If Lawmakers Renew Ethanol Producer Tax Credits
ADM, which the company claims is simple to set up and operate, has been designed to provide half-hourly meter reading data direct to suppliers through secure information gateways.
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