An announcement was expected after The Economist went to press that will heavily influence such an outcome.

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The David and Goliath scenario has featured heavily in the press, with leaked internal e-mails from Google providing a neat insight into how the search giant views competitors.

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Back in 2004, NBC announced it would pass the Tonight Show baton to rising star Conan O'Brien in 2009, a decision heavily criticized in the press given Leno's continued ratings dominance and eagerness to keep working.

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The blatant distribution of pork is also hazardous in Britain, a heavily centralised country with a ferocious press.

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To the contrary, the Mockus campaign is heavily and favorably covered by the press, resulting in the Bogota-born son of Lithuanian immigrants enjoying an Obama aura among voters.

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Like much of the Budget, the chancellor's decision to press ahead with local public sector pay bargaining was heavily leaked.

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He was the governor of Mexico State, a populous but small horseshoe around Mexico City, and his time as a national politician has been short and heavily stage-managed, with limited press access (and no more literacy tests).

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While conservative organizations are getting much press about election influence, left-leaning organizations are also heavily invested in political ads.

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Well, it has a large cast of contributors, it attempts (and seems to succeed) in covering ALL emerging markets, and most importantly it is (mostly) devoid of the vacant and vacuous moralizing that is sprinkled very heavily throughout The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and other parts of the Western business press.

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