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Bermudian Sarah Winstanley has been given a head start in her medical career thanks to a scholarship from Butterfield Bank and Bermuda Hospitals Board.
Ms Winstanley, who is in her final year of medical school at Imperial College, London, is the firs...
DATE: Aug 13, 2007
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The doll pictured left, from the newly designed proprietary Just Girlz collection, is on display at a Super Kmart in Homewood, Illinois.
Toy retailers across the US are beginning to fill their shelves with multicultural dolls whose skin colors and fa...
DATE: Aug 13, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance George Dale, the longest serving insurance commissioner in the US, lost a Democratic primary after opponents charged he was too close to the industry he regulated.
Gary Anderson won 51 perc...
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NEW YORK (Rueters) - The tightening of the credit markets and fears of a global liquidity crunch have turned a normal summer slowdown in mergers and acquisitions into a deep freeze.
Fears that deals may fall apart or their prices may go down escalate...
DATE: Aug 13, 2007
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged on Saturday to meet Caribbean nations' oil needs for years to come, and urged the region to unite and seek greater independence from the United States.Chavez deepened past pledges to ...
DATE: Aug 13, 2007
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Of all the breathtaking factoids about China's rise, the most fantastic may concern the stock markets. They are now bigger than China's gross domestic product.
The combined value of shares traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets reached $2....
DATE: Aug 13, 2007
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A poor Friday's business led to the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) experiencing one of its worst weeks' trading.
The Index lost 47.13 points (0.89 percent) on Friday, culminating in a total loss of 60.49 (1.15 percent) for the week, as it...
DATE: Aug 13, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - It has been a weekend of high anxiety for investors on Wall Street, as they braced themselves for what will likely be another rollercoaster ride for the battered financial markets.
Any more signs of spreading losses tied to risky...
DATE: Aug 13, 2007
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Things got downright serious this past week when central banks rushed to infuse financial markets with cash — and made noise about it.
It showed that North American and European monetary leaders needed no more proof that ...
DATE: Aug 13, 2007
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Q. Can I expect my shares of Sara Lee Corp. to show improvement in the near future? — R.F., via the Internet
A. This global food, beverage and household products company, which spun off its Hanesbrands division to shareholders nearly a year ago, is s...
DATE: Aug 11, 2007
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