In each country, Sodexho garnered for itself the number one or number two position, running neck-and-neck with U.K.-based Compass Group.

FORBES: At Your Service

In each country, Sodexho garnered for itself the No. 1 or No. 2 position, running neck-and-neck with the U.K.-based Compass Group.

FORBES: At your service

"It's been a pain in the neck, " Green says of the U.S. mortgage business, but he's careful not to say that buying Household was a bad idea.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Goldman and Morgan Stanley are running neck-and-neck for the title of No. 1 in underwriting the most U.S.-listed IPOs for 2011, according to Dealogic.

WSJ: Banks Cast Lines For Big Fish: Facebook

MediPharma has two drugs derived from Chinese herbs in midstage clinical trials in the U.S., one to improve the potency of radiation therapy on head and neck cancer and the other to treat Crohn's disease, an inflammation of the digestive tract.

FORBES: Ancient Secrets

The U.S. National Cancer Institute is sponsoring trials that include cancers of the head and neck, kidney, bladder, brain and colon.

FORBES: Modesty ablaze

The straightness of his back came from something else: that on his third attempt at escape from prison camp he was beaten senseless, and his skull and neck broken, by two Breton peasants with pitchforks, and was invalided out in exchange for a U-boat commander.

ECONOMIST: M.R.D. Foot