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Taboo–busting German comedy skewers bed–wetting, impotent Hitler
BERLIN AFP — Six decades after World War II, a Jewish filmmaker has made a taboo-smashing German comedy about Hitler that will premiere this month. And, against all the odds, it is actually funny. "My Fuehrer -- The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler", which will hit German theaters January...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Berlin, downfall, drama, Germany, Nazi
Research articles 2007-01-01
Reality of drugs
If ever you needed a stark reminder of the dangers of drugs, the downfall of Sharney Matheson is it. He was a loving family man with a successful business. In fact, he had everything to live for ( until tempted to tinker with heroin. It marked the...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., downfall
Research articles 2006-05-11
MEPs scrutinising Eq Life downfall.
THE chief executive of Equitable Life, Charles Thomson, has attacked the mutual's former management team and questioned the role of regulation in its downfall. In evidence due to have been read out to the European Parliament's committee of inquiry, he said Equitable Life had...
Tags: downfall, European Parliament, Government, Regulations, regulator, U.K.
Research articles 2006-04-27
Saddam's former number two urges escalation of insurgency
LONDON AFP — Saddam Hussein's former right-hand man Ezzat Ibrahim al-Duri called for an escalation of the deadly insurgency in Iraq in a letter attributed to the country's most wanted fugitive. Ibrahim, who has been on the run since the US-led invasion of March 2003, urged "resistance movements and...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, downfall, escalation, FINANCE, Iraq, London, occupation, Saddam
Research articles 2005-10-05
Kidman to star in German director Hirshbiegel first English film
LOS ANGELES AFP — Oscar-winning superstar Nicole Kidman is to star in the first English-language film by acclaimed German director Oliver Hirschbiegel, a science fiction thriller, the industry press said. Hirschbiegel, who made last year's Oscar-nominated film "Downfall," which chronicled the last days of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, is...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, director, downfall, invasion, movie
Research articles 2005-08-02
State of Labor Unions in the Union
Labor Day -- it's that one day in the year that we celebrate America's deep Gilded Age roots in trade unions. In reality, though, the U.S. has been on the decline for years. Here's one staggering fact on the downfall of unions: In the 1950s, one in three American...
Tags: Benefits, Jonathan Haeber, Globalization, Trade Union, Union, Downfall
Blog posts 2007-09-04
You probably think this story's about...
For more than 30 years, one of America's best-kept secrets has remained a pop culture mystery. No, not Deep Throat. We're talking about Carly Simon and her hit song You're So Vain. Who was she singing about? "It's about Mark Felt!" Simon, 59, joked by phone Wednesday from her...
Tags: downfall, FBI, Government, president, principal, Simon
Research articles 2005-06-02
U.K. group urges European lawmakers to take action over insurer's downfall.
By Ruth Sunderland, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 9--Equitable Life policyholder action group Emag is petitioning the European Parliament to bring the Treasury to book over the insurer's downfall. Emag wants the European Commission to launch legal...
Tags: downfall, European Parliament, FINANCE, Government, Insurance, policyholder
Research articles 2004-12-09
More on Fujimori
In "Pulling the Plug on Fujimori" (THE NEW AMERICAN, December 30, 2002), William F. Jasper laments the downfall of the Peruvian presidency of Alberto Fujimori and describes those who facilitated his downfall. For example, he states: "The Fujimori-Toledo battle illustrates the brutal methods that the global elitists will employ and...
Tags: downfall, FINANCE, IMF, Peru, World Bank
Research articles 2003-01-27
Takeover bids and the allure of cold, hard cash.
Jan 31, 2003 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) The world's largest media company is struggling, reporting a $A167.5 billion loss for 2002. The downfall began the day America Online acquired Time Warner in 2000. Since then, shares in the combined company have fallen...
Tags: ABN AMRO, downfall, FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, SALES, Time Warner Inc.
Research articles 2003-01-31
Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)
United Airlines labor is not killing itself In response to Steve Angvick's Dec. 14 letter, may I please say writers should check their facts before writing to the Daily Herald. As the wife of an American Airlines aircraft mechanic, I have taken ...
Tags: aircraft, American Airlines, blame, downfall, Manufacturing, mechanic, mechanics, salary, United Airlines
Research articles 2002-12-22
Eisner Bailout Could Cost $3 Million. (Wages of Fraud).(Eisner Securities)(Brief Article)
INVESTORS CAUGHT in the downfall of brokerage firm Eisner Securities are one step closer to getting their money back. The Securities Investor Protection Corporation SIPC recently sent out 23,000 claim forms to former clients of the St. Louis firm, which collapsed earlier this...
Tags: downfall, FINANCE, fraud, salary, SALES
Research articles 2002-01-01
Ease up on us :Air NZ.
Oct 5, 2001 The West Australian ABIX via COMTEX -- Executives of Air New Zealand Air NZ have pleaded with Australians to end their hostility toward the NZ airline. Acting chairman, Jim Farmer, said Air NZ had strived to make Ansett Australia viable. Anger...
Tags: Australia, downfall, Farmer, MARKETING, Qantas Airways Ltd., Strategy
Research articles 2001-10-04
Secrets and lies; Press freedom and privacy.(The downfall of British Petroleum's Lord Browne)
Lord Browne: the sad downfall of a business genius Lord Browne: the sad downfall of a business genius
Tags: downfall, BP Plc
Research articles 2007-05-05
Thomas Crammer: A Life. (book reviews)
Thomas Cranmer: A Life. By Diarmaid MacCulloch. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 692. $35.00.) This is a mighty volume; obviously lengthy, it is well researched and thought provoking, and it tackles a difficult subject well. It also contains...
Tags: downfall, FINANCE, Leadership, objectivity, PRODUCTIVITY, Yale University
Research articles 1998-06-22
Did HR Cause the Downfall of Enron? Find Out At the IPHRA Annual Conference, Oct. 9-11
Business Editors
Tags: downfall, Enron Corp., Human Resources
Research articles 2002-09-25
B-School Profs on Microdecisions, Redefining Workspace and the Icarus Paradox
The more things change, the more they stay the same -- Technology management professor Andrew Hargadon of UC Davis Graduate School of Management wrote about lies and statistics last week, calling statistics the weapon of choice these days in everything from science to stimulus plans. On the bright side, the...
Tags: Downfall, Professor, Paradox, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-03-16

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SEC chief hints of probe into Bear Stearns downfall
WASHINGTON AFP — The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Christopher Cox, hinted strongly Thursday that the US market watchdog was probing suspicious trading linked to Bear Stearns' downfall. Cox spoke as members of the Senate Banking Committee quizzed him over suspicious share trading in Bear Stearns' stock...
Tags: Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., Cox, FINANCE, Investment, SEC, stock
Research articles 2008-04-03
Thai PM slams fortune teller over downfall prediction: reports
BANGKOK AFP — Thailand's combative prime minister has lashed out at a famous fortune teller for predicting his new government's downfall in another military coup, local press reported Monday. Samak Sundaravej used his Sunday TV show to criticise Varin Buaviratlert, whose clients are rumoured to include ousted premier Thaksin...
Tags: Bangkok Post, Government, SOFTWARE, Thailand
Research articles 2008-04-06
TV porn leading to our downfall
Last week my husband and I watched three movies on the Hallmark Channel that were wonderfully uplifting. It was refreshing to see a movie about God-fearing people, as we used to see frequently. Thursday night we came across the program "Grey's Anatomy." We were shocked to see a...
Tags: Hallmark Channel
Research articles 2006-03-04
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