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NEW YORK (AP) — Live Earth is ambitious by any standard: eight concerts featuring the biggest names in music, playing for a 24-hour period across the globe, all for the cause of global warming.But like its template — 2006’s Live 8, the global concert...
DATE: Jul 04, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street advanced yesterday ahead of the July 4 holiday as investors drew confidence from a smaller-than-expected dip in factory orders and new merger-and-acquisition activity.The market was relieved to hear from the Commerce Depar...
DATE: Jul 04, 2007
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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Marvell Technology Group Ltd., a chipmaker that fired executives for stock options backdating, restated results by $327.4 million to account for costs from those grants.The company reported that the net loss ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2007
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Kensley McDowall has been elected chairman of the Bermuda branch of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).
Mr. McDowall, a Bermudian, is a trust manager with Codan Trust Company, an affiliate of Conyers Dill & Pearman, where he has res...
DATE: Jul 04, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Head restraints in dozens of sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks and minivans provided only poor or marginal protection from neck injuries in simulated crashes conducted by the insurance industry.The test results released yesterd...
DATE: Jul 04, 2007
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The Oleander was carrying 205 containers that included 50 refrigerated, when it arrived in Bermuda from Port Elizabeth, New Jersey on Sunday.
Its cargo also contained six trailers, three boats on a trailer, one asphalt roller, one utility trailer, on...
DATE: Jul 04, 2007
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They anticipate great spoils in case of another war with the United States.
The War of 1812 brought considerable riches to Bermuda and a generation later, conflict with the United States was again on the horizon.
Fortunately that war did not material...
DATE: Jul 04, 2007
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NEW YORK — Covidien Ltd. chief executive officer Richard Meelia will reshape the company, the world's second- biggest maker of disposable medical products, through acquisitions and divestitures after this week's spin-off from Tyco International Ltd.T...
DATE: Jul 04, 2007
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When England, in 1607, settled on what was later to become Virginia, Spain faced a bold challenge for this was an affront to Spanish hegemony in the region.
Philip III considered forcing the English settlers out of North America, as they had done wit...
DATE: Jul 04, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Some people called her Bubbles. Others knew her as “the diva next door”. But to most of the world, Brooklyn-born soprano Beverly Sills was America’s first prima donna — a child star who sang commercials for laundry soap and grew up to...
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