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HOUSTON (AP) — Continental Airlines Inc. said yesterday that soaring fuel costs pushed it to a loss for the first quarter, and it plans to retrench by mothballing planes and reducing flights.
Also, Continental took a small but public step toward comb...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - A group of attorneys once affiliated with tort lawyer Richard (Dickie) Scruggs was disqualified from a case that accuses an insurance company of racketeering in its handling of policyholder claims after Hurricane Katrina.
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DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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BRUSSELS (Bloomberg) — European Union regulators are considering scrapping an antitrust exemption that allows European insurers, reinsurers and brokers to share data, write standard contract terms and set premiums.
The European Commission, the EU's a...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan says colleague Wayne Furbert is wrong to claim the party will never again win an election.
Yesterday former leader Mr. Furbert said the UBP needed to disband and make way for something more able to defeat the Prog...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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Government's plan to offer technical education in public schools as part of the basic curriculum has raised questions by the United Bermuda Party (UBP).
While supportive of the blend of academic and technical learning, the Opposition said it is conce...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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Congratulations to:
Kingsley Burch, of Hamilton Parish, who celebrated his birthday yesterday.
Gina Smith, of Pembroke, who celebrated her birthday yesterday.
Edna Dill, of Sandy's, who celebrates her birthday today.
Gina Spence, of Pembroke, who cel...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola and Julius Nyerereof Tanzania ¿ three African leaders who share a common historical example for the African continent.
They have the distinction of stepping down as political leaders o...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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BRUSSELS (Bloomberg) — Billionaire George Soros said the boom in commodities is still in a "growth phase" after prices for oil, wheat and gold rose to records.
"There is a commodity bubble which is still in the growth phase," Soros said yesterday at ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Merrill Lynch & Co., the world's largest brokerage, said yesterday it would cut another 3,000 jobs after more than $6.5 billion of fresh write-downs pushed it to a loss for the first quarter.
It marks the third straight quarterly loss...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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SKIPPER Ingham, 78, founder of Bermuda Karate Institute, placed first in a field of six in the senior forms category of competition at one of the longest running open tournaments in the US ¿ the Shihan Gary Alexander's 45th IAMA (International Associ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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