Last night, in briefing his senior advisors on his decision, essentially it's closing the book on the internal deliberations that have lasted months over this and there's been some sharp disagreements on approach.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Conant's use of employee engagement has been so successful that it is held up as a model in the book Closing the Engagement Gap--How Great Companies Unlock Employee Potential for Superior Results, by Julie Gebauer and Don Lowman.

FORBES: An interview with Douglas Conant, CEO of Campbell Soup Co.

In this context, Minister Poghosyan underscored the successful impact of the designation of Yerevan as the World Book Capital in 2012 and invited the Director-General to attend the closing celebration on 10-11 December coinciding with the 500th anniversary of the first Armenian printed book in the country.

UNESCO: The Director-General and the Bulgarian Minister of Culture advocate for strengthening regional cooperation in South East Europe | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The WestLB rogue traders' positions were thus valued and logged at the end of each day in the bank's official trading book, along with the closing prices from the stock exchanges.

FORBES: Fischer Pays Price For WestLB Trading Scandal

This is the message of Mr Blom's book, hinted at but left unstated until the closing chapters.

ECONOMIST: Atheism and the Enlightenment

With the ballot closing on December 14th, and the consequent prospect of strikes around Christmas, who will book holiday flights with BA?

ECONOMIST: Business travel

We thought we might have swung the bat too hard with our closing chapter in that book, when we predicted that blogs would usher in a new Age of Conversation.

FORBES: Age of Context: Draft Introduction