The acquisition of the first 10% block of shares from Li Ka-shing was an overnight decision.

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About a dozen times per shopping trip, the device lets out a "Ka-ching" as an electronic coupon appears on the screen.

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"What we know at the moment is that four women were travelling in a red Ford Ka which has left the road and gone down an embankment on the road between Llangadog and Brynamman, " said Chief Inspector Pete Westlake.

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Even the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, Robert Dole (R-KA), seemed susceptible to this siren's song in an interview last night on CNN.

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These strands came together in 1999 in the Cyberport project, a property development disguised as an information-technology initiative, negotiated with the Pacific Century Group of Li Ka-shing, the most redoubtable of Hong Kong tycoons.

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