• David Riley reiterated that Fitch was unhappy that the chancellor said in the Autumn Statement that the Treasury would miss its 2015-16 target to start cutting the level of net debt.

    BBC: Fitch warns of risk to UK's AAA credit rating

  • The great crash of 2007 to 2008 was when it became clear that the UK has to start paying its way in the world, that it's impossible to run current account deficits forever, that when aggregrate household, business, corporate and banking debt reaches four times the value of everything we produce (which it did in 2008), it's time to start saving, investing and working harder.

    BBC: If growth's the problem, are more ARMs the answer?

  • Some investors interpreted comments from Fed officials to mean that the bank may start pulling its support for the economy sooner than they expected.

    NPR: Stocks Barely Budge; Market Ends Week With Loss

  • The Countryside Alliance voiced that last week with its revelations that work had yet to start on the government's fast broadband pilots.

    BBC: DIY fibre broadband

  • In 1984 he and Intel cofounder Gordon Moore decided to abandon the memory chip business that gave the company its start for what became a dizzyingly successful string of microprocessors.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The group also secured a promise--although one that's not so secure that it's included in the cost-scoring of the bill--that Medicare would start raising its reimbursement rates for physicians over the next 10 years.

    FORBES: ObamaCare

  • One was with a store that decided he had flair and put him in its display department, and that was the start of his career.

    ECONOMIST: Gene Moore

  • Yet her company is inching away from the kind of programming that led me to start reviewing its shows in the first place.

    WSJ: Theater's Expiring Subscription Model | Sightings by Terry Teachout

  • Statistically, Scotland can qualify (where have you heard that before?) as one of the poorest performers of Europe, in that its economic contraction, at more than 4% since the start of the downturn, is similar to that of deeply troubled Spain.

    BBC: Making up lost ground

  • Next also said that the start of its post-Christmas sale had been successful in its brief trading update.

    BBC: Next brushes off gloom

  • It's ironic, then, that at the start of its journey into mobile devices Wolfson actually failed to grow quickly enough, resulting in the loss of its biggest and most high-profile customer.

    ENGADGET: blogger-avatar

  • Some of the arguments he traces are familiar, from various attempts to prove the logical necessity of the existence of god to speculations among more adventurous physicists that the universe got its start as a kind of lucky quantum burp.

    ECONOMIST: The question of existence

  • The biggest news out of the release was the possibility that the central bank could start paring back its quantitative easing efforts by the summertime, and not necessarily because the economic recovery has firmed up.

    FORBES: After Fumbled Release, Fed Minutes Pay Lip Service To QE Risks

  • When it releases its results the company is likely to start sketching out its defence against the widespread assumption that it was grossly negligent.

    ECONOMIST: BP and the gulf

  • Quarter after quarter, analysts have asked News Corp. executives about a report that the media conglomerate intended to start its own national sports network to compete with ESPN, and the executives have duly played it coy.

    FORBES: News Corp. Admits 'World's Worst-Kept Secret': It's Planning ESPN Clone

  • Separately, the New York Times confirmed that it would limit free access to its website from the start of next year.

    ECONOMIST: Business this week

  • McDonald's demands that all its employees must start on the till or in the kitchen.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • Mr Horta-Osorio also said he was "very confident" that taxpayers would recoup their cash, though declined to comment on reports that the government is getting ready to start offloading its stake in Lloyds when shares reach the 61p break-even level.

    BBC: Lloyds losses narrow to ?570m in 2012

  • In like manner, I believe that reactors should be designed such that an earthquake of any magnitude could not destroy the reactor or its containment shell, further that if the reactor core was to start to melt down, the melt down itself would shut the reactor down and, at the very worst, the reactor would entomb itself with no potential release of radiation into the environment.

    FORBES: A Year After Fukushima Meltdown, Is Nuke Power Any Safer?

  • On Monday Instagram revamped its Terms of Service to suggest that advertisers could start dipping into the multitude of sepia-filtered photos on its network and using them.

    FORBES: Instagram Boycott Now Includes National Geographic And Anonymous

  • That's about two million more than the 5.4 million people in that demographic who have actually tuned into the show since its September start, according to Nielsen.

    WSJ: Slow Start For X Factor

  • Yet when confronted with these assertions, the Obama administration flatly denied that New START required only the United States to reduce its forces.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Mapping a National Security Failure: Ratification of the New START Treaty | Page: 6

  • Oaktree received lower marks from analysts than Forum Energy and MRC Global and warned from the start that investors in its IPO should expect its financial results to fluctuate significantly, without steady earnings growth.

    WSJ: Trio of IPOs Have Mixed Debuts

  • Its whole thesis that the Pentagon needs to start searching for alternatives hangs on government cost estimates, but it simply takes those estimates at face value without asking why the costs keep rising or whether the estimates are even valid.

    FORBES: Super-Weapon: Why Have F-35 Fighter Costs Increased?

  • The aftermath of the dot-com bust may seem like an odd place for a venture capital firm to get its start, but that was the case for Emergence Capital and in the decade-plus since the firm started it has eschewed the consumer-centric booms and blowups of the first wave of the Internet in favor of business-focused services.

    FORBES: Tech IPOs: Why Workday Flew And Facebook Flopped

  • Bernstein, sees Coke's main risk as the huge spending on marketing that will be needed to jump-start its depressed core brands and to launch the new ones.

    ECONOMIST: Soft drinks

  • The elected chair of this first session, Danielle Mazzonis, noted in her closing remarks that the Scientific Council is off to a good start and the Council affirmed its readiness to help the Office fine-tune its strategy for addressing the challenges in the region, taking into consideration the current financial constraints that UNESCO finds itself in.

    UNESCO: Bureau in Venice welcomes on board new members of its Scientific Council | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

  • There has also been a growing sentiment that the U.S. Fed may start to rein in its stimulus efforts as, when, and if the economy starts to recover.

    FORBES: It Started With Tulips, Now Bubble-Watchers Are Looking To The Bond Market

  • The portal's acquisition of the photo-sharing site Flickr was hailed by some as a sign that it could freshen up its business model by tapping into the wave of Web-friendly start-ups that emerged in the wake of the 2001 tech bust.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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