• The break-up is scheduled to take effect the end of this month and will create the second-largest U.S. refiner after Valero Energy.

    FORBES: Texas Billionaire Sees Big Payday Dealing Eagle Ford Acres To Marathon Oil

  • "Quad-core processors offer much faster performance for graphics-intensive activities such as high-definition video playback and high-end gaming as well as enabling the phone to handle multitasking with less effect on the user experience, " said Daniel Gleeson, a research analyst for IHS Screen Digest.

    CNN: 5 quad-core mobile games to watch

  • If this deal works for Prince - and it wouldn't for new or successful artists - then it could mean the end for music retailers reeling from the effect of internet shopping, says John Aizlewood, a music critic and broadcaster.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | Are free CDs killing music?

  • Or to put it another way, the Department made unrealistic assumptions about the growth of passenger numbers and inflation towards the back end of the franchise period - which had the effect of making First Group's bid seem significantly more attractive, because First Group was massively more optimistic about how passengers and revenues could grow after 2021 than was Virgin.

    BBC: What derailed the Transport Department

  • The debt would be 76% of GDP in 2020 under current law, which assumes the Bush tax cuts would expire and deep across-the-board spending cuts would take effect at year end.

    WSJ: Obama Blasts GOP Budget as 'Trojan Horse'

  • The end effect is to remind Mr Clinton, and even more his heir-apparent, Mr Gore, that the Democrats cannot assume that the votes (and money) of America's Jews are automatically theirs.

    ECONOMIST: America and Israel

  • The inquest heard one of the first tasks she had to perform was to make one part-time teacher, Angela Mercer, redundant at the end of the school year - something she found difficult and which was having a "detrimental effect upon her".

    BBC: Helen Mann

  • In effect, they can end up owning most of the market and become like over-priced index funds.

    FORBES: Active v. Passive Management: How to Get the Best of Both Worlds

  • Fiscal tightening is programmed to intensify in 2012 as a reduced payroll tax and more generous unemployment-insurance benefits expire at the end of 2011, and federal spending cuts contained in previous budget agreements will take effect.

    ECONOMIST: The recovery runs out of steam

  • The hi-tech system was introduced with one main purpose - to eliminate the possibility of vote-rigging, and give the Kenyan electorate faith in the count - but our correspondent says the failure could end up having the opposite effect.

    BBC: Kenya election: Tense wait for Kenyatta and Odinga

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