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When companies release their quarterly financial results, do you feel like you need an interpreter? Do "loan-loss provisions", "other-than-temporary impairments" and "low visibility" leave you scratching your head?
You're not alone. Much of the langu...
DATE: Apr 25, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - As the sun streamed through the glass ceiling of London's 40-story "Gherkin" tower in May 2007, Thomas Jasper raised his champagne glass.
Almost 25 years after the former Salomon Brothers Inc. banker transformed the derivatives...
DATE: Apr 25, 2009
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Two years after the Land Title Registry office was set up, Government has yet to pass a law to allow it to function properly.
This year more than $1 million will be spent on running the office, according to the Budget book, but staff can only work on...
DATE: Apr 25, 2009
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Seniors advocates are reporting a rise in pensioners being conned out of homes often by greedy relatives.
Age Concern head Claudette Fleming said the elderly needed to be wary of people claiming to have their interests at heart, only to snatch their ...
DATE: Apr 25, 2009
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There is one thing my clients occasionally do that makes me want to swallow my tie. I groan when someone lurches between a posture of being 100 percent in stocks and a panicked retreat in which stocks are abandoned altogether.
Such all-or-nothing inv...
DATE: Apr 25, 2009
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Child genius Nahshon O'Neil Hollis says he wants to give back to children in need when he becomes a famous artist.
With his artwork ranging in prices from $175 to $1,000, the 13-year-old artist has been chosen out of over 1,000 talented kids world-wi...
DATE: Apr 25, 2009
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In 1968, riots followed the Easter Parade. the first ever state of emergency was declared and Police used teargas to disperse the crowds.
DATE: Apr 25, 2009
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WASHINGTON – When high-ups at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters ordered the torture of Abu Zubaydah, they thought he had been withholding valuable information.
There was no ticking time bomb, and no one ever claimed there was. They just though...
DATE: Apr 25, 2009
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The irrepressible Somers Kempe completed a clean sweep of class honours in the International One Design (IOD) after seeing off the threat of nearest rivals Patrick Cooper and Hubert Watlington in the Great Sound yesterday.
Joined by crew Matthew Cair...
DATE: Apr 25, 2009
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Colin Thompson
When LeYoni Junos was approached to become director of the African Diaspora Heritage Trail (ADHT) Foundation, she envisaged a long and happy career working in a field she is passionate about.
The post was a temporary one, expected to last for 18 mont...
DATE: Apr 25, 2009
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