The regulators may, of course, object to the deal.

ECONOMIST: British cable industry

Of course, Moscow can be expected to object to such a course of action.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The preferred way to deal with rogue asteroids is still a Hollywood-style heroic space mission to knock the object off course, or possibly blow it up although almost surely as an unmanned effort.

ECONOMIST: The American Association for the Advancement of Science

In the end, we all outlast the object of our adoration, perhaps because passion runs its course more swiftly than other human emotions, perhaps as a result of excessive familiarity with the object of desire.

NEWYORKER: ?lvaro Rousselot��s Journey

We had heard this rumor on the internets a little while ago, and now it looks like Swatch is really going to come out with a SPOT watch (SPOT, of course, being Microsoft's Smart Personal Object Technology that uses FM radio signals to send data to watches, like news, stocks, instant messages, etc.).

ENGADGET: Swatch Paparazzi SPOT

Of course, cynics and die-hard progressives might object to the above evidence on the grounds that it was driven by an explosion of income gains.

WSJ: Arthur B. Laffer: Class Warfare and the Buffett Rule

Of course, of course, only on condition that you do not object in any particular way, even a tiny bit, to my broaching this delicate subject?

NEWYORKER: Heirs