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LONDON (AP) — Alliance Boots PLC, Britain’s largest chain of pharmacies, rejected a $9.7 billion ($18.7 billion) takeover proposal yesterday.Alliance Boots said the 1,000 pence ($19.32) per share offer from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and its large...
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WASHINGTON — Anti-war lawmakers in Congress are undermining US troops in Iraq by trying to limit President George W. Bush’s spending requests for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday.Hitting out at la...
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NEW YORK — Hundreds of mourners prayed over small, simple caskets at a tear-filled funeral yesterday for the nine children and a woman killed when a fire raced through their extended family’s home in the Bronx.The children’s fathers, one who lost his...
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Stephen Catlin has come around to accepting the increasingly mooted argument that global warming will be a significant factor in increasing insurers’ losses in years to come.
The chief executive officer of the Bermuda-based Catlin Group, the biggest ...
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Government has lost almost $2.5 million in parking fines in the last three years by allowing more than 49,000 tickets to go unpaid.
There were 117,794 parking tickets issued in the City of Hamilton in 2004, 2005 and 2006 but only 68,091 — or just und...
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Government overspent on the Police Service by more than $1.7 million last year, it was revealed in Parliament at the weekend.
But the explanation that the figure was not as high as it could have been due to savings on unfilled posts came under fire f...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Donald Trump’s casino company said yesterday it hired Merrill Lynchto help it weigh strategic options for financing, capital structure and other alternatives.The company, Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., said there could be no a...
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Government spent $351,800 more than originally anticipated on the Fire Services last year due to plans to merge the three brigades into one national service from April 1.
The amalgamation of the Bermuda Fire Service, the St. George?s Volunteer Fire B...
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Now that the Southlands proposal is open once again for public scrutiny, a new problem has emerged.
Environmentalist Stuart Hayward fears a lot of people who want to inspect the Southlands Planning file won’t be able to get their hands on it because ...
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COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) — Philippine negotiators and the country’s largest Islamic guerrilla group are talking of a breakthrough in efforts to end one of the world’s oldest Muslim rebellions, but they may be overly optimistic.Analysts an...
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