Blackstone and its like may have to pay the price of a little more openness.
But if they go to Samoobrona and its like, then Poland, and Europe, have some problems ahead.
After all, the magazine and its like-minded cohorts had helped install the president in office in 2008.
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While Woodfield's and its like hold out, Messrs Cooper and Taylor cannot be confident that their revolution will triumph.
There are, however, several reasons why many marketers are still wary of committing big money to Foursquare and its like.
Will Google Earth and its like ever have as symbolic a role in our culture as the old-fashioned atlas or globe?
If things continued as they were, the Levee district would corner Chicago and swallow it whole, this fine, proud city that wielded its triumphs like a scepter and wore its reputation like a crown.
Lay co-founded Enron and served as its chairman and, like Skilling, its chief executive at different points.
The fact that the metal is currently priced at an all-time high suggests that Freeport, and its competitors like Southern Copper, Codelco and Newmont Mining, can expect high revenue figures for this year.
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Its other branding touch points, from its extra-large cup and fresh, shiny packaging, to the inventive flavors like pomegranate and pineapple, to its line extensions like Chobani Champions for kids and Chobani Bites, small 100-calorie cups perfect for a quick, delicious snack, are consistent with its promise.
In future, LIBOR and its equivalents like EURIBOR should be set on the basis of actual, not estimated, borrowing costs.
That push-pull of supply vs. demand will keep prices elevated as we head into the spring selling season and its looking like that shopping season will be weaker this year than last.
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MBIA, and its peers like Ambac Financial Group, traditionally operated in the somewhat routine business of insuring municipal bonds but expanded into the mortgage market as the housing boom swelled and began writing insurance on mortgage-related instruments that turned sour en masse when the bubble burst.
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However, Ireland is still reliant on loans from the ECB to its banks, from the EU to its government and would like ECB to use its OMT program to buy its bonds and perhaps arrange a precautionary credit line with the new bailout fund, the ESM.
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It operates in the same businesses, ranging from retail and commercial banking to investments, and like its big peers, it ballooned in size in the middle of the Great Recession by buying a failing competitor.
But Shell and its sympathizers would like people to talk about Greenpeace and the Yes Men rather than what the company is doing in the Arctic.
However, with the problems in places like Greece growing again, suddenly the U.S. and its currency look like the best house in a bad neighborhood.
Top Glove, which gets 80% of its sales from latex gloves, has been smart enough to diversify and, like its U.S. rivals, is making nitrile gloves, using a nonallergenic synthetic product, but in doing so it loses an edge: its proximity to its Malaysia's rubber plantations.
Microsoft opened its check book and spent like crazy in its effort to defend its historical PC products business.
"You can't be giving out awards and not have the success of American Idol in mind, and all its attendant buzzwords like democratization and crowd-sourcing, " he says.
Ljung says SoundCloud functions less like MySpace in its heyday and more like a Flickr or YouTube for sound.
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Its ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly like an airplane, combined with its capacity to haul more troops and equipment farther, faster and with greater survivability than existing helicopters ensures that it will be of enormous value in future actions requiring long-range, swift and stealthy projection of ground forces.
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In the past 12 years since he became CEO the company has lost precious market share of its browser and Office products and watched companies like Apple and Google eat into its Windows monopoly.
But the strategy came under the scrutiny after the company saw continuous operating margin declines and market share losses in its core and most profitable markets while its competitors like Unilever fared better amid the same challenging market conditions.
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McCourtney, works to keep the right balance, but the pressure is building on the New York-based firm to overhaul itself and act more like its Silicon Valley outpost: hasty and brazen.
Pooled together and scrubbed of its identifying features like names and phone numbers, Tancer says the logs show more than just how people use the Internet.
That makes the company more reliant on strong customer service and other niceties, like its leather seats and DirecTV, to deliver a better passenger experience than its competitors.
Oh, and like its natural inspiration, SLIPS does a great jobs keeping bugs off its surface.
The museum, designed by architect Moshe Safdie, is named for a nearby spring and its bridge-like architectural elements.
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