Ron Sommer, Telekom's boss once a hero of Germany's nascent equity culture, but now a perennial target of shareholder groups and the press has fallen out publicly with Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, which last week sold a huge batch of Telekom shares, sending the share price plummeting (see article).

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Pharmacia also still thinks VEGF makes a promising target, the company said in a press release.

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"This is our soft target, " the Commissioner told a press conference, explaining that this would represent roughly four kilos of waste per citizen.

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One lawyer said the joke was at the expense of Yale Law School, where Justice Clarence studied, while another lawyer said Harvard Law School was the target of the joke, the Associated Press reported.

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We trust our liberal friends in the press corps won't mute their dismay merely because this time the target is a network they love to hate.

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Microsoft even got Nik Nayar, Target's VP for merchandising, to lavish abundant praise on the device in its press release.

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Recent press lauds Facebook as an effective media channel, with positive validation coming from large advertisers like Starbucks and Target who link paid social media presence to in-store purchase behavior.

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