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		<title><![CDATA[Obituaries I: Altus Becomes a Casualty of Development Costs, but Drug May Live On]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biotech industry is leaner than it was 18 months ago, and the fallen include some of the oldest names in the industry, like Altus Pharmaceuticals ALTU. by Trista Morrison]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:30:28 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hundreds Protest in Macau on Handover Anniversary]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stefanie McIntyreMACAU (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - About a thousand people marched through Macau's streets on Sunday, urging the government to fight corruption and grant them more political freedom, as the territory marked its 10th anniversary under Chinese rule.The protesters waved banners that called for universal suffrage in 2019 and chanted anti-corruption...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lear Corporation Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions  Your first question comes from John Murphy &#8211; Bank of America Merrill Lynch. John Murphy &#8211; Bank of America Merrill Lynch I have a number of questions here so I&#8217;ll try to keep them as brief as I can.  First, when we...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:14:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Darden Restaurants F2Q10 (Qtr End 11/29/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Our first question today comes from the line of David Palmer with UBS.  David Palmer - UBS I'll just try to wrap in a few quick questions in here -- first you said that you didn&#8217;t believe that it was just easy comparisons, we...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:20:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Study: Profits Go Up When CEOs Make More Than Their Peers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that a company's profitability is tied to whether its CEO is overpaid, relative to other CEOs in the same industry, according to new research by the University of Florida. by Stefan Deeran]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:48:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Eight Financial Innovations to Believe In]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opponents of financial regulatory reform warn that it will stifle financial innovation. Yet I can think of only eight innovations that have actually done consumers any good. by Eric Schurenberg]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:40:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lloyd's of London CEO Encourages B-school Students, Managers to Take Risks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While speaking recently at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, Richard Ward, CEO of the insurance specialist Lloyd's of London, encouraged students to be risk takers. He also shared some ideas for managers hoping to get the most out of the risks they take. by Stacy Blackman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:00:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Small Business Strategies to Limit the Risk and Affects of Data Loss  Preventing unplanned downtime and business failure]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Choosing a dedicated hosting provider can be complicated and risky. Choose the wrong provoder and you may experience countless house or downtime, solutions that are not right for you, and the endless frustration of dealing with indifferent, second-rate service and technical support.     But choosing does not...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Research In Motion F3Q10 (Qtr End 11/28/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Gus Papageorgiou from Scotia Capital. Gus Papageorgiou - Scotia Capital I know you don&#8217;t usually disclose this but I&#8217;m just going to ask it anyway -- can you tell us in terms of device volume, can...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:57:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US TV groups fight for India's airtime]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Time Warner said on Thursday that next year would be critical in the war for supremacy in India's prime time pay television market, as the country becomes a battleground for the largest US media groups.Time Warner, which formally announced a $126.5m deal to take over Hindi general entertainment channel...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Citigroup 'wanted debt-for-equity swap at EMI']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Citigroup tried to take control of EMI before Terra Firma, the music company's private equity owner, launched its legal attack against the bank, according to three people familiar with the negotiations.The stand-off  began with a letter from Citigroup in September proposing a debt-for-equity swap that would have given...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Next Decade's Top 10 Growth Industries]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't know about you, but I expect to be working ten years from now - they'll probably have to pry the laptop out of my cold, dead hands. So I care a lot about which industries are expected to grow and decline over the coming decade, and so should...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tiger Aside, Celebrity Endorsements Pay Off]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does Tiger have you rethinking your celebrity endorsement strategy? You shouldn't, says HBS professor Anita Elberse. Here's why endorsements make cents. by Sean Silverthorne]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[IBM Acquisition of Lombardi Influenced by Cloud Strategy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM acquisition of Lombardi is all about its massive cloud computing strategy to move beyond commodity offerings and into value-added services. by Erik Sherman]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Australia to Ease Qantas Owner Rules]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sonali Paul and James GrubelMELBOURNE/CANBERRA (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Plans by Australia's government to scrap some foreign-ownership rules for Qantas Airways Ltd QAN will give the carrier more clout to raise capital and play a bigger role in the consolidation of a global industry that has bled cash and jobs...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - The risk of stifling an economic recovery is greater than that of a fresh systemic crisis, Barclays BARC Chairman Marcus Agius told Les Echos in an interview released ahead of publication on Friday.There will not be an economic recovery if the ability of banks to take...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Luc Vigneron, the recently appointed head of Thales SA TCFP, will unveil a restructuring plan on Friday for the defence electronics group, the Financial Times saidThe plan is expected to include targets on cost-cutting and performance and Vigneron is likely to promote a new generation of...]]></description>
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