• As the roller came out, the question was: would Australia's late rally provide renewed belief for their bowlers, or would England's batsmen instead take the view that this was a better wicket to bat on than it had appeared during the early exchanges?

    BBC: Ashes: Alastair Cook builds England reply in Sydney

  • Independents will shift back and forth, but if they split 49% to 49% (with the rest going to minor candidates), then Mr. Obama's vote total would be shaved by 1.1 million and Mr. Romney's would grow by an equal amount, cutting the president's margin to 1.4 million.

    WSJ: Rove: Obama's Shrinking Majority

  • If Hanwha buys ING's operations, that would narrow Samsung's lead, and if Kyobo wins, it would overtake Hanwha to become Korea's second-biggest life insurer.

    WSJ: Potential Buyers Emerge for ING's Korean Life Arm

  • For Chrysler's part, it would get a few things it desperately needs, including vastly increased scale that would, in theory, help lower costs, and access to GM's sprawling overseas operations, which would salve Chrysler's overdependence on North America.

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  • Mr. RHINEGOLD: What would people's reaction would be if a car manufacturer made a million cars and 250, 000 of those cars drove off the road?

    NPR: Responsible Consumers Decry Mortgage Bailout

  • Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour.

    BBC: Changes to the world's time scale debated

  • Backers of a strong court insist that the prosecutor must have the power to investigate cases brought to his attention by anyone, including victims and human-rights groups, though most would accept a compromise under which the court's judges would review a prosecutor's decisions.

    ECONOMIST: The UN and war criminals

  • Given Bundesliga champions Wolfsburg are unbeaten at home in this season's competition, it would appear United's best hope of finishing top would be for CSKA Moscow to defeat Besiktas in Istanbul, which would leave the United at the head of affairs no matter what their result is.

    CNN: Vidic setback adds to Man United worries

  • First up for a makeover, should Winder's vision be realized, would be Fleming's second novel, "Live and Let Die, " initially made in 1973 in Moore's first appearance in the lead role -- something that would likely only raise eyebrows among Moore connoisseurs and fans of the original's epic Wings title track.

    CNN: James Bond: The world's favorite spy

  • Ms. Tate's vote would end the agency's 13-month review of the deal and would clear the final hurdle for the merger, which was approved by the Justice Department in March.

    WSJ: FCC Commissioners Will Approve XM-Sirius Deal

  • Who, in 1965, would have thought that by 1990 South Korea's income would have soared but Argentina's fallen?

    ECONOMIST: Political economy

  • Aside from slashing the club's debt in half, the group's funds would also improve the club's credit-worthiness, which in turn would make Liverpool more attractive for further outside investment.

    BBC: Liverpool 'in investment talks with US group'

  • However, slower deficit reduction in Athens would mean Greece's international creditors would have to give it more help in a politically fraught overhaul of Greece's bailout programme.

    CNN: Sch?uble and Lagarde clash over austerity

  • Bill Nelson also criticized McCain's plan, saying it would ruin his state's tourism industry and would not solve the problem.

    CNN: McCain wants to lift ban on offshore drilling

  • Richard Lugar, questioned how the military gains could be converted to a settlement that would allow U.S. withdrawals he said would be forced by strains on the U.S. armed services.

    CNN: Petraeus, Crocker criticize Iran, call for halt to troop pullout

  • The top U.S. envoy to the region, Richard Holbrooke, expressed optimism that Thursday's vote would be Afghanistan's moment to shine.

    CNN: Violence, graft overshadow Afghan elections

  • The Treasury's proposal would prohibit U.S. financial institutions from opening or maintaining accounts for foreign banks that process transactions for Liberty Reserve and require special steps to guard against any transactions involving it.

    WSJ: U.S. Alleges $6 Billion Money-Laundering Operation at Liberty Reserve

  • If real GDP in China and America continued to grow at the same annual average pace as over the past ten years (10.5% and 1.7% respectively) and nothing else changed, China's GDP would overtake America's in 2022.

    ECONOMIST: When will China overtake America?

  • In theory this policy of buying and cancelling some of the debt would reduce Greece's indebtedness, because the market price of its bonds is a fraction of the amount originally borrowed: if the EFSF paid 50m euros for Greek bonds with a face value of 100m euros, and agreed that Greece should have an obligation to replay only the 50m euros, that would reduce Greece's indebtedness by 50m euros.

    BBC: Practical steps to prevent eurozone meltdown

  • That would not only damage the council's credibility, but would also set back France's own hopes for a more concerted European foreign policy.

    ECONOMIST: Time for Iraq to disarm peacefully is fast running out

  • They favored, instead, "containing" Saddam Hussein or, at best, replacing him via a coup with some other despot who would not have Saddam's criminal baggage but would fit in and play well with the Mideast's other authoritarians.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • The intelligence officials were concerned that full disclosure would set a precedent for future exposure of the agency's sources and methods, and would threaten America's relationship with allied intelligence services.

    BBC: Obama publishes 'torture' memos

  • On Wednesday, America, China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany announced that they would no longer tolerate Iran's refusal to give a yes or a no to a package of incentives and potential punishments they hoped would stop Iran's enrichment of uranium.

    ECONOMIST: The axis powers | The

  • One would think that a disaster like Flordia's would prompt the State Board to reconsider whether it should be in the business of managing money.

    FORBES: Expert View

  • He tried the patience of more practical and straightforwardly ambitious politicians like Nehru, for example by proposing Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's would-be leader, as India's first prime minister, to avert partition.

    ECONOMIST: Indian biography: Skin deep | The

  • They are unanimous in believing that were the King Edward's girls to be spread around the city's comprehensives, they would not be dragging anyone's standards up they would merely be forced to settle for lower standards themselves.

    ECONOMIST: Grammar schools: Passing the test | The

  • Labour's Denis MacShane said he would vote "for parliamentary democracy and against plebiscites" and his colleague, David Crausby, believed Mr Nuttall's three-way proposal would "result in a complete dog's breakfast, leaving the British people as frustrated as ever".

    BBC: EU referendum bid rejected by MPs

  • The U.S. loss would be China's gain, thanks in no small part to Chu's foresight.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • He added that there were areas where the panel's probe would conflict with BP's findings.

    BBC: Oil spill: BP 'did not sacrifice safety to save money'

  • Now fully supportive, he's said would strike down California's law if he sat on the Supreme Court.

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