With this year's merger and acquisitions rates just off all-time highs of 1999 and 2000, owners who never planned to sell their companies are getting pulled in.
"Phones go off all the time and if I'm speaking I tend to stop speaking and wait for it to finish and carry on, " says Tamsin Greig, star of this year's West End transfer of Jumpy.
That all changed in 2004-2005, when transportation costs suddenly rocketed as oil prices blasted off to all-time highs.
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However, the stock is still some 50% off its all-time high, hit last May.
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While prices are 29 cents off their all-time highs, they remain fairly elevated.
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Following a buoyant start to the year, many stock indexes around the world are near multi-year highs and the Dow Jones index is not far off its all-time record.
In the disaggregated report, managed-money accounts in gold are now net-long 218, 574 contracts, pulling them off an all-time high for net-longs in this report, having decreased their gross longs by 31, 828 contracts and hiked gross shorts by 3, 251 contracts.
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What you may not know is that famous people are kicked off golf courses all the time.
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"If we were doing the same songs - like singing 'Yae cannae shove your Granny off a bus' all the time - I wouldnae do it, " he says.
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Though fear of cuts and overflowing workloads makes employees feel like they can't take time off, all that added stress means it's more important than ever for them to get away and refuel, say career specialists and psychologists.
Like all good video game trailers, it spends most of its time showing off what games are all about: gameplay.
Those Australian victories somehow seem to lead to a string of injuries or boredom that knocks Williams, one of the all-time greats, off her game.
Now, a gamer going by the alias of AzzerUK has revealed on social news site Reddit how he turned off the requirement to be online all the time.
In recent years, hedge fund managers like John Paulson and David Tepper, have pulled off some of the greatest trades of all time by doing things like betting against mortgage-backed securities and buying beaten-down banks stocks.
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Whatever schoolboy lore says about Abe Lincoln 's log cabin or Lyndon Johnson 's "Aw shucks" Texas upraising, many, if not most, U.S. presidents were born well-to-do, and nearly all were quite well off by the time they sought the nation's highest office.
Finally, consider homebuilding, which is taking off all across the country for the first time in over five years, creating a potential for positive opportunities associated with everything related to a home, from Home Depot (HD) and Owens Corning (OC), to Lennar (LEN) and Whirlpool (WHR).
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On September 22, 2012, two of the greatest tennis players of all-time will square off in a match for the ages at The Greenbrier Champions Tennis Classic, when legends Pete Sampras and John McEnroe take to the court at the venerable Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV.
Even the mighty Amazon.com is slipping, off 8.3 percent from its all-time high in January.
The women joined them later despite an off night for Ebone Henry, the all-time leading scorer in school history for Albany (1, 631 points).
And to top it off, all of this takes place at a time when there are no guaranties about even having a job, let alone a future, with the new company.
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He went for nought for 92 off 10 overs, fourth on the all-time worst one-day bowling-figure list behind New Zealand's Martin Snedden, and Sri Lanka pair Ashantha De Mel and Sanath Jayasuriya.
"That takes the pressure off the electric barrier and buys all of us some time in finding a long-term solution, " which could include some type of watershed separation, he said.
As for his rivals on the right, Mr Berlusconi, whose party won a quarter of all votes, has seen off, for the time being, both Mr Fini and Umberto Bossi, leader of the separatist Northern League, whose vote fell from 10% in the last general election to 5% this month.
Atlanta's lineup will receive another boost Monday when McCann, a six-time All-Star catcher, comes off the disabled list.
Reyes, a four-time All-Star, was carted off the field Friday and placed on the 15-day disabled list Saturday.
He had shaved off his beard a long time ago, and they all thought he looked better now.
Atlanta's lineup will receive another boost Monday when Brian McCann, a six-time All-Star catcher, comes off the disabled list.
Stemp says he rarely met Care Clinics' Dr. Jesus Caquias, who signed off on all his treatments but who spent much of his time 350 miles away in Brownsville.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly say it is a necessary, life-saving, crime-fighting tool that helps keep illegal guns off the street and has helped New York reach all-time crime lows.
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