However, news of the horsemeat contamination was followed by a drop in the company's shares on Wednesday - wiping hundreds of millions of pounds off its market value.
More than 300 homes in Ascot missed out on a leaflet drop in November following a mistake by Royal Mail.
Pace registered the biggest drop by far on the London Stock Exchange in early trading.
The bosses fully expected the saving on space to be counteracted by a drop in productivity.
England's defeat by New Zealand at Twickenham on Saturday saw them drop to sixth place in the world rankings.
LeBron James and those other guys who play for some team called the Miami Heat will drop by the Barclays Center on Wednesday, with the Chicago Bulls in Friday.
Spurred by a sudden drop in prices, Asians in the last two weeks have gone on a gold-buying binge.
Brazil IP data for February saw a 2.4% decline from January, weighed down by a 9% production drop in automotive, a sector that has been dependent on stimulus since 2008.
The economy's recovery will depend crucially on net trade, spurred by the big drop in sterling over the past two years, which will give an edge to domestic producers both in export markets and at home.
Statistics released by the Ministry of Justice show a year-on-year drop in the time cases take, but also a steady fall throughout 2012.
Although smaller numbers, in Scotland - where Scottish students do not pay tuition fees - there has been a bigger year-on-year percentage drop than in England, falling by 10.5%.
Back in Knoxville, he decided on impulse one afternoon to drop by the inconspicuous mosque near campus, even though it wasn't a Friday, the day Muslims gather to pray.
Figures from the European Central Bank this week showed that lending to the private sector declined by 0.3% year on year in September, the first drop since records began.
So Johnson Associates, a Wall Street compensation expert, is out today with its projection that bonuses on the Street this year will drop by as much as 45% in some units.
British citizens on pensions in foreign countries could see their locally denominated incomes drop by half from their peak (well, not against the euro, which is also in freefall).
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High streets across the country on average saw the biggest drop in activity, with visitor numbers down by 7%.
It wasn't immediately clear what triggered the decision by the Winklevosses to drop the case, which has dragged on since Mr. Zuckerberg created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004.
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Carlyle Capital that said while its parent company had participated "actively" in negotiations with lenders and was prepared to provide substantial additional capital if a successful refinancing deal could be reached, negotiations had deteriorated on Wednesday when a pricing service used by some lenders reported a drop in the value of the assets' collateral.
Executive committee vice-president Chung Mong-joon announced in Zurich on Monday that by a unanimous vote it had been decided to drop the rotation from 2018.
One bearish play, which yields maximum benefits if shares in the ETF drop more than 25% by December expiration, is one of the largest initiated on the XLF so far today.
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The clip was shelved after production when the monetarist camp in his campaign led by Milton Friedman convinced him to drop it, although it did make it on the air by accident.
We put 6, 000 papers on the street each week, and after staying up most of the night Wednesday, I would come in late Thursday and bask in the glow: townspeople stopped by to chat, bring announcements, and drop an occasional compliment on the editorial.
On this basis, a 40% drop in share prices could trim consumer spending by 4-5% over two years.
The study found that companies caught up in mere accounting scandals saw their shares drop by an average of 8.8% over the six months on either side of the incident.
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Thus, the story about the drop in oil prices that the press yammered on about all day seemed more than a little silly by the time the closing bell rang at the corner of Broad and Wall.
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Waste drop-in sessions start as the public's opinion on Guernsey's waste strategy is sought by the States.
They could not cross the visitors' line but a third Lamb penalty, with Munster's Tuitupou in the sin bin for a spear tackle on Stringer, followed by a short-range drop-goal, gave the hosts a 12-3 lead.
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