The pipeline is transporting crude oil from Greece to a refinery at Skopje, which was bought in 1999 by Hellenic Petroleum, the Greek state oil company.

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The Apple (AAPL) tablets, equipped with a custom-made debt-restructuring app, were handed out to the leadership team, including representatives from the Finance Ministry, the Hellenic Exchange (the Greek equivalent of the NYSE), the Bank of Greece (their version of the Federal Reserve) and the three external banks that managed the deal, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Lazard.

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In order to establish their credentials within the Hellenic world the Carthaginians conflated the Greek hero, Heracles (better known as Hercules), with Melqart, his Tyrian counterpart.

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We must state that we consider the above threats to be in breach of the Hellenic Criminal Code and as the alleged offence took place on Hellenic soil and the victims were Greek citizens, jurisdiction will be assumed immediately.

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Can one even speak of a Greek attitude toward Alexander, or was the Hellenic world too fragmented and diverse to have a consensus view?

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And this week George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, met successful businessmen of Hellenic origin from five countries (such as Andrew Liveris, chief executive of America's Dow Chemical company), in the hope that they could lend their struggling homeland some badly needed pizzazz.

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As an example, as of September 1st 2010, the Greek regulator banned naked short selling of Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company SA. Lauded US politician, Barny Frank once said that all institutional investors should state, when they open a position how long they intend to hold the position for!

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Vassilis Monastiriotis of the Hellenic Observatory at the London School of Economics predicted that the international community will show patience with the new Greek government at least until September, not least because any alternative would be far more radical and anti-European.

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