• On Wednesday, the airline sector fell hard as oil prices rose, although though shares of Midwest Air Group kicked up 5.3% on word of a higher bid for the company from AirTran Holdings.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • With Britain now trailing Switzerland 3-0, the two reverse singles rubbers left to play on Sunday have been rendered meaningless, though the matches will go ahead although likely to be reduced to best of three sets.

    BBC: SPORT | Tennis | Swiss destroy GB Davis Cup hopes

  • Atletico were desperately unlucky not to equalise after 55 minutes when Maniche's fine finish was ruled out by a linesman's flag, even though he was clearly onside, although Benayoun appeared to suffer a similar injustice moments earlier.

    BBC: Atletico Madrid 1-1 Liverpool

  • Jamie Hamill fired a cross from the right into a busy penalty area and, although the goalkeeper rose as though in command of the situation, he spilled the ball horribly and the striker reacted first to bundle home.

    BBC: Mark Burchill celebrates his goal

  • After he began planning for Philanthropy Week, though, he was astonished to learn that although AAPIs make up approximately 5% of the US population, we comprise over 50% of Americans with chronic Hepatitis B.

    WHITEHOUSE: Hepatitis B and the AAPI Community

  • "Essentially, Mr. Mezvinsky takes the position that even though he may have engaged in much (although not all) of the conduct attributed to him in the indictment, he did not manifest criminally culpable intent, " the notice states.

    CNN: Ex-congressman plans insanity defense in fraud case

  • Celtic, though, were looking the more dangerous side, although they got the rub of the green again when extending their lead.

    BBC: Dundee United 1-3 Celtic

  • Wharton never remarried, although she had a long and intimate, though ambiguous, relationship with Walter Berry.

    ECONOMIST: Literary biography

  • Wigan refused to wilt though and continued as a threat in the game, although Charles N'Zogbia's 25-yard free-kick - easily gathered by Reina - was their only effort on target before the break.

    BBC: Liverpool 1-1 Wigan

  • Creating an incentive-based society, although trimming back certain extreme elements of legal, though undesirable behaviour, is rightly the way forward.

    FORBES: Britain's Twofer: Vote For One Party, Get Two

  • However, by the end of the century, plans were afoot to dam the Nile and it looked as though the Great Temple was doomed to be buried again, although on this occasion its coverage was intended to be water.

    BBC: Abu Simbel: The great temple of Egypt

  • MTV's victory, though, is pyrrhic: both operations are still losing money, although Channel V is a bit closer to breaking even.

    ECONOMIST: Star woes

  • Although nothing was confirmed, Cingular made it sound as though users might be able to expect a specially bundled data plan for the iPhone.

    ENGADGET: Cingular scheduled to rebrand as AT&T by iPhone launch

  • Although cuts at GM and Chrysler have removed some (though not enough) excess capacity in America, not a single car factory in Europe has closed so far.

    ECONOMIST: The car industry

  • Although slightly offended I had to take a test even though they said everyone liked me and wanted to hire me, they had hired a consultant to see what conative makeup would be successful in the job, and my test results had to match that makeup.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Taylor, though, was able to forge his side back into contention, and although he lost Grant Elliott cheaply, he added 42 with Broom (29) and 62 with Mills (26), whose all-round efforts earned him the man-of-the-match award.

    BBC: Kiwis snatch win in Perth opener

  • Bristol City continued to play free-flowing football whereas at times Blackpool looked as though they were trying too hard with simple passes being overhit or going astray, although the blustery conditions did not help.

    BBC: Blackpool 1-1 Bristol City

  • Dire though this sounds, adequate care outside the home appears to do children little damage (although bad care is harmful, whoever gives it).

    ECONOMIST: Child care

  • Though some of those suits were tailored in Los Angeles, Paris and Rome, and although the films are Hollywood productions, 007 remains essentially British.

    ECONOMIST: The global brand of 007 still shakes and stirs

  • And although champions of the legislation will go to lengthens to make it appear as though those evil fossil-fuel energy suppliers and energy-gobbling corporations will foot the bill, Americans have enough economic sense to know that ultimately those costs find their way to consumers and workers.

    FORBES: Why Are Environmentally-Conscious Senators Fighting For Junk Mail?

  • In real terms, adjusted for consumer-price inflation, interest rates are already negative: for the first time since the mid-1970s. (Though using a different measure of inflation, they are still positive, just.) Although the context is very different, some commentators are already noting that the Bank of Japan has, for a prolonged period, had virtually no room for manoeuvre on monetary policy because Japanese interest rates have been negative for so long.

    ECONOMIST: The Fed keeps cutting

  • To Paul's most passionate followers, though, it doesn't matter that Paul has earned only an estimated 76 delegates (although his supporters challenge that number), compared with Romney's 841.

    CNN: For Paul's true believers, a study in American optimism

  • For the most part, though, this is not a way for IBM to eliminate employees and pay less money (although that will certainly happen over the course of their business as usual).

    FORBES: What IBM Cutting Major Employee 401(k) Benefits Means For You

  • Although women now earn more first degrees, they mostly still get fewer PhDs (though in America they seem to have caught up), and if they stay on in academia they are promoted more slowly than men.

    ECONOMIST: A world of bluestockings

  • Now, Jasmine, though, technology, it would seem has already made inroads, particularly in the book selling business, although Amazon sells other things, you know, as well.

    NPR: Big Technology A Threat To Small Businesses?

  • It is astonishing to me that, although I had no knowledge of game theory when I was writing my novels and even though the field did not exist at the time.

    FORBES: Jane Austen, Game Theorist?

  • Though Neil's first solo record, "Try Whistling This, " is in release, and although he does some skywriting as an actor in his new music video, Neil does not think he will be a solo artist forever.

    CNN: Neil Finn goes solo for a melodic 'Try Whistling This'

  • Although no polls have been taken, an informal Main Street sampling shows Dukakis leading for the moment, though about one-third of the voters remain undecided.

    CNN: The Place That Picks Winners

  • Although the connections we show of inequality to life expectancy, infant mortality and homicide are slightly weaker (though still statistically significant with correlations of between 0.4 to 0.6), there are an additional 200 independent analyses that chart the link between health and inequality and another 50 between violence and inequality.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

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