Amidst the financial crisis, he had to make a very sweet deal with Berkshire Hathaway to grab some cash (in exchange for preferred shares) in order to keep GE out of bankruptcy court.

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Dr Mahathir's preferred option now appears to be to order Khazanah, the government's investment arm, which he chairs, to bail out Time.

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The individual mandate, by forcing everyone to buy medical insurance or to pay a fine, was intended to force those who preferred not to purchase insurance to do so in order to subsidize the other customers and their insurance companies.

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Surgeons could still order a passive-motion machine or a preferred prosthesis.

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Relying on vast infusions of money from the IMF could actually worsen the problems of a country like Italy, since the fund's presumed preferred-creditor status would push private bondholders further down the pecking order.

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First category: This is he who studies it in order to find out the truth of it, or to know why the Shari'a is preferred over it, or to benefit from it in a way which does not contradict the Shari'a, or to benefit someone else.

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