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		<title><![CDATA[Resolution Reports Weaker Friends Sales]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Insurance-focussed takeover vehicle Resolution RSL reported a drop in sales at Friends Provident, its first acquisition, but said it planned further deals as the sector remains ripe for consolidation.Resolution, which completed the acquisition of Friends Provident on November 4, said the insurer had sales of 505...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:45:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Set Your Own Screen Resolution on a Shared PC with Carroll]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/businesstips/?p=4756]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sharing a computer is the pits. If you're stuck in a "shared resource workspace" or split alternating shifts with someone on the same PC, I feel for you -- I really do. One of about a million annoyances with that sort of arrangement is that everyone on the same PC...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:00:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shareholder Meetings Have Become a Circus]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/07/20/shareholder-meetings-have-become-a-circus/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The RSPCA ordered the removal of the dozen lemmings brought to British Airways' shareholders' meeting but they had done their job of illustrating the fate the trade unions think their members face.    Boards have become used to meetings being hijacked for publicity stunts, but the practice will...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:31:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Watch for Bitter Proxy Season Over Pay For Bailed-Out Execs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1629]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Battling lines are being drawn in what should be a raucous proxy season. Topic A is compensation for top executives of big financial firms that got federal bailouts.    A few groups have submitted resolutions seeking to curb executive pay. One led by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:23:53 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[4 Recession Resolutions for Leaders]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/teamwork/?p=567]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The dawn of the new year (happy 2009, by the way!) often inspires people to jettison the old and welcome the new, break bad habits, and turn over a new leaf. But with the economy looking grim and job security increasingly perilous for many, it can be tough to think...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:09:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[My 9 Productivity Resolutions for 2009]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/teamwork/?p=560]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As 2008 draws to a close, I find myself engaged in that most hackneyed of annual traditions: making resolutions for the next year.    Along with my typical resolutions (eat better, exercise and sleep more, complain less), I decided to add a couple of new ones into the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:38:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ExxonMobil's Tillerson Prevails But Management Doubts Remain]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1162]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The drama is over in Dallas... for now. ExxonMobil management has prevailed in shooting down dissident shareholder resolutions to split the role of CEO and chairman now held by Rex W. Tillerson and other resolutions regarding reducing greenhouse gas emissions and boosting renewable energy.    The confrontation had...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 13:56:28 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Six Ways To Achieve Your Resolutions Through Public Speaking]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=385527]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Most New Year's resolutions are about health, fitness, money management, time management and ending bad habits like smoking. And more than half of people who make resolutions have given up by summer. However, "People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dealing With A Procrastinator]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=389378]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If you made some New Year's resolutions, chances are they were not about situations that sprang up last week. More likely, a task has been nagging at you over time, you kept putting it off, and now you want to get motivated to make that change. As hard as it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Certificate Of Corporate Resolution]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=353457]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A corporate resolution is a formal process adopted by the Board of Directors of a company that authorizes the officers or management of the corporation to undertake actions on behalf of the company. This corporate resolution has the intent of amending the corporations existing terms of reference, by-laws or regulations...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Banks drive FTSE higher.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5986/is_200711/ai_n24179952]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Standard Life helps gains Jonathan Eley    London shares rose on Monday as a rally in the banking sector and  gains for Standard Life after it refused to up its  offer for Resolution  drove gains, FT.com reports. The FTSE 100 was 0.8 per cent stronger...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CAN CROMBIE CHECK PEARL'S AMBITION? Standard Life has come under]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20071104/ai_n21088508]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[!!CORRECTION!!    Please note that Pearl Group was working in consortium with Royal London not London Life as the articles below states.   THE gloves finally came off in the battle for insurer Resolution this week. Ever since Pearl Group director Hugh Osmond bought a small restaurant...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Four insurers, two deadly rivals - but there can only be one zombie]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20071104/ai_n21090510]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Personal enmity underlies a bruising bid battle in the closed life insurance market. Simon Evans takes a ringside seat   2007 has certainly been the year of the protracted bid battle. The London Stock Exchange chief executive Clara Furse successfully fended off Nasdaq's advance after a six-month tussle, while...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Resolution ponders Standard Life's Pounds 4.9bn bid]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20071026/ai_n21078485]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sean FarrellFinancial Editor   The board of Resolution was meeting last night to decide on its response to yesterday's last-minute 4.9bn takeover approach from Standard Life.   Standard Life proposed an offer of 517p a share in cash and 0.715 Standard Life shares for each Resolution share....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Standard Life mulls last-minute bid in battle for Resolution]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20071025/ai_n21079643]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sean FarrellFinancial Editor   Standard Life's potential bid for rival insurer Resolution was finely balanced last night as it workedtowards getting a recommendation from the Resolution board ahead oftoday's deadline.   The Takeover Panel has given Standard Life until 5pm today to make anoffer to break up...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pearl spurned again despite higher bid for Resolution]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20071020/ai_n21064430]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By James Moore   The battle for control of the life insurer Resolution intensified yesterday as Pearl made a formal 4.7bn takeover offer.   But although the 691p-a-share offer is 31p higher than itsoriginal proposal, the lowball bid was still well below Resolution's share price, which jumped to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Resolution Life rejects Pounds 4.5bn offer from Pearl]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20071011/ai_n21052779]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By James Moore and Sean Farrell   Resolution Life yesterday threw out a 4.5bn cash takeover proposal from rival closed-life insurance operator Pearl in favour of its preferred all-share merger of equals with Friends Provident.   The 669p-a-share indicative offer - that is conditional on a recommendation from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Takeover bid_Rival insurers set to join forces to thwart Resolution-]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20071007/ai_n21038730]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Pearl Assurance, the life company stalking fellow insurer Resolution, is expected to team up with Standard Life to make a joint bid for the group.   Resolution is tomorrow set to provide investors with an offer document for its proposed nil-premium merger with Friends Provident. But analysts think Pearl,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Resolution to restructure deal for Friends to head off Pearl]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20070731/ai_n19435651]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Life insurer Resolution yesterday pledged to shake up its [pound]8bn planned merger with Friends Provident in an attempt to prevent rival Pearl from blocking the deal.    Hugh Osmond's Pearl - which runs closed life insurance funds, as does Resolution - has built up a stake of nearly...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pearl poised for knockout Resolution bid]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20070729/ai_n19437951]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Pearl Group, the life insurance firm run by Hugh Osmond, will seek talks with the board of Resolution this week to put a [pound]4.5bn takeover of the company on the table.    It is believed that Mr Osmond and his advisers will meet with Resolution, led by chief...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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