We start with two wishes for everyone at the World Economic Forum from our host, Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the forum: 1. use your energy to advance collaborative innovation, 2. be an ambassador for good corporate behavior.
These two lefty wishes--greater economic equality and value-free multiculturalism--may live together peacefully in college political science departments.
Well, two of those wishes are about to be granted next Sunday with airing of Super Bowl LXVII.
Two of his wishes -- tithe one-tenth of his income to the poor and provide an anonymous dowry for poor girls -- are part of Jewish customs.
However, as a regulated institution, it was impossible for Barclays' board to ignore the revealed wishes of the two most powerful regulators in the City.
These factors are unlikely to weigh too heavily on Xstrata, Glencore and their shareholders as they decide whether to go along with the wishes of the two companies' directors.
There are two elements to what Mr Osborne wishes to achieve, in tax changes that won't be legislated till 2012.
He naturally assumed they were scamming him into buying a high-priced custom, so he spent the next two years going from shop to shop, unable to find anyone who could offer to sell him a bike that fit, riding a painful compromise the whole time, before biting the bullet and investing in the Serotta, which he now wishes he had bought two years earlier.
Aubrey McClendon, chief executive of Chesapeake, ultimately bowed to the wishes of Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management, the two largest shareholders, replacing four board members, as my colleague Christopher Helman reported.
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"Mr Martins now wishes to go back to his family from which he has been parted for two years, " he said.
After October's legislative election, it is the biggest party in both chambers of Congress, with power both to block legislation requiring a two-thirds majority and to force ministers to appear for public roastings when it so wishes.
They felt that those were his true wishes, based on a grease-stained note from 2000 that Williams and those two children signed, while he was in the hospital.
For two days, they have sought among mountains of rubble, of telephones that carried the last wishes and words of love of thousands to the last who would ever hear them, of papers and wires and photographs and files, for a sign of life.
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