• We like awesome new software as much as the next guy, but Google's been moving so fast lately that they've created a near constant culture of obsolescence anxiety among the hardcore user base -- and in turn, that leads to paralysis at the sales counter.

    ENGADGET: Exclusive: Android Froyo to take a serious shot at stemming platform fragmentation

  • The stock is hovering just at its buy point of 30.77, ten cents above the high in a flat-base pattern that began in mid-June.

    FORBES: Baidu And MercadoLibre Back In The Sweet Spot

  • The serious downsizing and disruption of the defense industrial base - including in some cases the likely elimination of small businesses that provide unique parts for the supply chain.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Destroying The U.S. Military From Within

  • People such as Kevin Petzer, a 65-year-old Zimbabwean who still roams South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia from his base in the KwaZulu-Natal province in eastern South Africa.

    WSJ: In Geology, Old-Timers Can Be Worth Their Weight in Gold

  • Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn revealed in the matchday programme that the Black Cats would be slashing season ticket prices for next season in the hope of maintaining their fan-base in difficult economic times.

    BBC: Sunderland 2-0 Stoke

  • Wells, who hit the go-ahead two-run homer on Saturday, followed with a solo shot, and then drove in Brett Gardner with a single down the third-base line in the fifth inning.

    WSJ: Royals lose 4-2 to Yankees, 6th defeat in 7 games

  • But the moves - which include closing a key air base and replacing it with a new base in the north of the island - are stalled amid entrenched opposition in Okinawa to the construction of the new base.

    BBC: US troops held over Okinawa alleged rape

  • The mohajirs, who did not own land, and so consequently had no place in the traditional political and social structure, were now having their power-base in the civil service whipped from under them.

    ECONOMIST: Pakistan—wounded at birth | The

  • Also poised to gain: the network's bottom line. (As a 50% owner and its namesake, there are significant incentives for the self-made billionaire as well.) Despite its reach--OWN is a re-branding of an already established cable service, Discovery Health Channel, so it counts some 75 million in its current subscriber base--it earns only 13 cents per subscriber in its current non-Winfrey form, according to industry research firm SNL Kagan.

    FORBES: Daytime Television

  • Shipping costs were lower, for one thing, and using a just-in-time production base allows a carmaker to better respond to sudden shifts in market demand.

    MSN: The hollowing out of Japan��s auto industry

  • In a riposte to Mr Yushchenko's allegations (backed by western election observers) of vote-rigging in Mr Yanukovich's power base in the Russian-speaking east of Ukraine, Mr Yanukovich has alleged ballot-stuffing in Mr Yushchenko's Ukrainian-speaking stronghold in the west, and has filed his own complaint to the Supreme Court.

    ECONOMIST: Edging towards a solution | The

  • Northern Ireland's veteran goalkeeper, Maik Taylor, has a German mother and English father, but - having been born on a British base in Germany - he was entitled to play for any of the UK nations.

    BBC: Scoring in the NI gene pool

  • He wants his gubernatorial and mayoral candidates in vote-rich provinces to win so he can enlarge his base in the run-up to 2016.

    WSJ: Philippine Midterm Vote Sets Stage for 2016

  • The American diplomats responsible for Kunduz are stationed seventy-five miles away, in a heavily fortified base in Mazar-e-Sharif.

    NEWYORKER: After America

  • Public affairs officials at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, which is in charge of the X-51 development project, provided no updates.

    MSN: Hypersonic aircraft taken out for a trial run on B-52 bomber

  • When it happened, I was a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and was in pilot training at a now-decommissioned base in Arizona.

    FORBES: Of Day-Trading And Thermonuclear War

  • Members of his PASOK party are recalcitrant, not least because the reforms threaten the party's power-base in the unions.

    ECONOMIST: The streets of Athens are in the grip of an ugly mood

  • Mike Hostage, commander of Air Combat Command at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia.

    NPR: Federal Budget Cuts Ground Air Force Aircraft

  • At the end of it all, his power-base in ruins, Mr Brown forswears future ambition and kisses the hand of Mr Blair.

    ECONOMIST: The most bathetic reshuffle in history

  • But Healy is off-base in recent comments he has made on Twitter and on his blog with reference to medicines in general.

    FORBES: Why David Healy Is Wrong About the Safety of New Medicines

  • This morning, President Obama visited Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia to talk about what he calls an "American responsibility" -- honoring and supporting our nation's veterans.

    WHITEHOUSE: Share This Post

  • After a few more years managing in the minors and working his off-season job of selling used cars, Weaver joined the Orioles as a first-base coach in 1968.

    WSJ: Legendary Orioles Manager Weaver Dies at 82

  • What thrills the breed of scientifically minded baseball nuts known as sabermetricians is that Williams got on base an astounding forty-eight per cent of the time (he walked a lot), the highest on-base percentage in baseball history.

    NEWYORKER: Playing The Numbers

  • Jim was probably the only western correspondent to cover the entire affair from start to finish, though he had to re-base to Cyprus in 1980 after being put on a Syrian hit-list at a time when that was not a theoretical threat.

    BBC: Middle East Correspondent Jim Muir

  • After Toronto took a 2-1 lead against Phil Hughes on Lind's RBI single in the fourth and Izturis' run-scoring double off the base of the right-field wall in the sixth, the Yankees overcame a deficit for the fourth straight day when Lyle Overbay hit two-run homer in the seventh that was caught on the fly by Yankees reliever David Robertson in the right-field bullpen.

    WSJ: Dickey drops to 2-4, Blue Jays to 9-17

  • As his family lived close to Greenham Common in Berkshire - a former air-force base where nuclear-armed US planes were stationed in the 1980s - Mr Cameron said he had also been aware of the arguments about nuclear weapons and Britain's defence.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • The constructor will retain total control over its engine manufacturing base in Viry-Chatillon on the outskirts of Paris and also continue to supply engines to Red Bull in 2010.

    CNN: Renault continue in Formula One

  • For example, the Conference Board in the November 2012 Global Outlook (see chart below) forecasted an annualized growth rate of 2.3% in its base case for the years 2013-208 and a further reduced annualized growth rate projection of 2.0% in its base case for the years 2019-2025, representing a distribution of roughly 18% of overall World output.

    FORBES: Is Sub-Three Percent Economic Growth the 'New Norm?'

  • At Rhein-Main Air Base in Frankfurt, flights increased dramatically from mid-afternoon Sunday to mid-day Monday.

    CNN: Finally, troops leave Germany for Bosnia

  • The Mets' slumping slugger was called for obstructing a runner rounding first base in a three-run first inning and went hitless in three at-bats for New York during a 4-3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night.

    WSJ: Davis struggles in field and at plate for Mets

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