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France had threatened to hold up the lifting of U.N. sanctions imposed on Libya for the 1988 bombing of the Pan Am 103 airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, if Libya did not satisfy the UTA families' demands.
CNN: France 'stops blocking Libya deal'
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It cut interest rates to hold the U.S. stock market up, producing another round of irrational exuberance, and boosting the stock market up into the 1999 bubble.
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If the evidence were to hold up in a review by the U.S. patent office, Berninger s findings could invalidate two out of Verizon s three claims of infringement by Vonage.
FORBES: A Sliver Of Hope For Vonage
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Abraham Lincoln, the only U.S. president to hold a patent, grew up in the same part of Indiana in which Bowman farms his soybeans.
FORBES: The Supreme Court Is About To Shape The Future Of Innovation
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As we learned when the console was initially announced, the Wii U's "proprietary high-density optical discs" hold up to 25GB of data -- equivalent with that of Sony's single-layer Blu-ray format on the PlayStation 3, and much larger than the Xbox 360's dual-layer DVD format.
ENGADGET: Take a very, very close look at the round-edged Wii U proprietary discs
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Such a risk assessment is the basis of buy-and-hold advice that urges investors with medium or long time horizons to load up on U.S. stocks.
FORBES: 2011: A Scary Year For Stocks, And Not The Last
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Now, Mr. Petzel points out, much of the demand for U.S. debt comes from "uneconomic" buyers who scoop it up and hold on to it at any price.
WSJ: The Intelligent Investor: Are Bond Rates on a Road to Nowhere?
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If the accusations hold up, the establishment will appear flat-footed and as if it coddled a big U.K. bank with a unit based in New York.
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