• He needs to take concrete steps, such as opening talks, boosting contacts and suspending his campaign for a United Nations seat.

    CNN: Unreal War

  • It diversified its revenue stream in related fields, such as opening restaurants, retail stores, car rentals, advertisement spaces and time share locals.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • Doing more to attract deposits may have other benefits, such as opening up cross-selling opportunities, tightening underwriting controls and retaining customers for longer.

    ECONOMIST: Lenders in America and Britain retrench, but for how long?

  • Lessons include in-school visits from local entrepreneurs and field trips to Junior Achievement centers where kids learn financial lessons such as opening a bank account.

    WSJ: Making Young Kids Smarter About Finance

  • While a computer virus requires some sort of human intervention to be launched, such as opening an e-mail, a worm takes off on its own.

    CNN: Sasser worm rips through Internet

  • Cashless kiosks could concentrate on basic services, such as opening accounts, and there may even be the possibility of banks linking up with workplaces to allow people to complete transactions from their desks.

    BBC: Do bank branches just need a makeover?

  • Internet issues aside, both the 7GP and 8GP were rather smooth and quick when doing every-day tasks such as opening up apps and swiping between pages -- which is likely due to the pair feeding off of Google's Project Butter.

    ENGADGET

  • And in an email translated through a third party, Mr. Morel raised needs such as opening a Dominican bank in the U.S., creating a health-insurance program to cover families when traveling to the Dominican Republic and lowering the cost of paperwork at Dominican consulates.

    WSJ: Living in New Jersey, Elected to Serve Far Away

  • Unable to act as an ongoing supervisor of Asia's financial systems, all it can do is demand reforms that may or may not be carried through (though some, such as opening the region's banks to foreign competition, will be harder to reverse than others).

    ECONOMIST: Kill or cure?

  • Beijing may adopt other policy measures to support economic activity, such as opening up more strategic industries (eg, railway, power and telecom, and services) to private investment, providing special assistance to small and midsized enterprises and export companies, and, possibly, offering specific consumer spending subsidies.

    FORBES: What's On Deck For China Investors?

  • However, the Attfields realised that he responded to quieter noises, such as the opening of a biscuit tin.

    BBC: News | Health | Bringing up Edward

  • Women making minor stands on issues such as door opening or men making equally pedantic points of order over these trivial issues simply serves to perpetuate hostility and reduces good grace between the sexes.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Equal rights take a back seat

  • More volunteers could, Miss Mulligan added, enhance services such as helping extend opening hours at police stations and delivering safety and crime prevention programmes.

    BBC: Julia Mulligan

  • In tests on female volunteers, the Umea team showed that L. plantarum is capable of colonising common sites of infection, such as the urethral opening and the perineum.

    BBC: Bacteria may be added to tampons

  • Felter says with games offering more interactivity than other internet media such as video, they are likely to open up as a new form of online communication, particularly now that companies such as GameSalad are opening up game creation to non-experts.

    CNN: 'Angry Birds' adapted for political satire

  • The search box at the top of the screen lets you search for a place or a business, and the expanding information pane at the bottom of the screen shows relevant information, such as address, opening hours, ratings and reviews, images, directions and other information.

    FORBES: Google Maps App Comes To iOS 6

  • As Facebook becomes a key place where people discover content such as news articles, Yahoo also sees an opening to provide technology to online content providers such as newspapers so they can better control of how users find and interact with their content, rather than leaving it up to Facebook and others.

    WSJ: Technology News: Yahoo Decides to Friend Facebook

  • Air France's pilots have been equally tenacious, with strikes at such sensitive moments as the opening week of the football World Cup held in France last year.

    ECONOMIST: European airlines

  • Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the party led by former cricket star Imran Khan, asked for the army to be deployed in Karachi, after widespread reports of irregularities such as polling stations not opening and improper voting slips being given out.

    WSJ: Karachi Beset by Political Strife

  • With foreign retailers such as The Gap and Hennes opening new shops every week, the situation is worsening.

    ECONOMIST: Marks and Spencer

  • This can be extremely helpful when moving the disabled person from the wheelchair to a couch, and opening things such as doors and microwaves.

    FORBES: Veterans Research Lab Focuses on Creating Special Devices for Disabled Veterans

  • Time honored traditions such as store closings on Thanksgiving, opening at a 5:00am, and starting Black Friday sales on Black Friday are no longer being followed.

    FORBES: Competitive Spirit, Black Monday and Promotional Discounts Give Rise to a Merry Online Retail Season

  • Ed Miliband also launched Labour's campaign on Monday, saying he wanted councils to be allowed to prevent the opening of shops such as payday lenders and bookmakers.

    BBC: Nick Clegg

  • Many follow eccentric opening times, such as alternate months.

    BBC: In tune with Vienna

  • In the last few years, a wave of store closures, which claimed Road Records on Fade Street and the Doll Store on George's Street, is being countered by a wave of revitalisation, such as the Doll Store re-opening at Powerscourt Centre in response to community outcry this winter, and a collection of Irish designers unveiling retail ventures at Project 51.

    BBC: A wave of independent shops in Dublin

  • Accompanied by government officials, kayakers such as Raymond celebrated the river's opening Monday, and her kayak club even made a video.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Soros also cut stakes in miners such as Nova Gold and Kinross Gold while opening a small position in Freeport McMoran, which has exposure to both copper and gold. (Note: All valuations used here represent May 17 closing prices unless noted).

    FORBES: Gold, Banks On The Agenda For Billionaires Soros, Paulson In Q1

  • And although India is opening some sensitive industries, such as telecoms and retail, to foreign investors, ownership limits remain.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • The long-haul Dreamliner is part of that strategy: JAL is opening potentially lucrative new routes such as the one it already flies between Tokyo and Boston.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese Airlines

  • The federal government has already ruled repeatedly that opening new onshore areas, such as the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, to drilling would exact too great an environmental cost.

    WSJ: Drilling Rules Hit Alaska Pipeline

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