The bell is tolled on receipt of important news such as a ship sinking.
Still though for big U.S. financials the most important news came from the Federal Reserve.
Joe would bound up from his chair every time they rang the bell on some important news release.
But the real important news here may be what the stock reaction says about investors feelings about Pfizer.
Composer Howard Skempton said he wanted to use bells because they "proclaim moments of public gathering, celebration and of important news".
That's big news here at home, but it's also important news abroad.
In retrospect, this was important news, which should have been passed up the chain of command to Mr Lake and ultimately to the president.
Al and I will both serve on the Advisory Board of Al Jazeera America, and we look forward to helping build an important news network.
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The Trust said it would therefore like to see fewer "non-news" features in news programmes, particularly when there was more important news in the agenda to cover.
Five months later, on June 8, 2000, the couple received the most important news of their lives together: Angelil's cancer was in remission and Dion was pregnant.
This has surprised many in Pakistan, given that a vibrant private-sector electronic media has lately shown itself to be aggressively competitive in digging up important news and follow-up stories.
In times past, the visit of a Communist leader to a NATO ally would have been important news, but the trip was virtually ignored in the U.S. and Greek general press.
Two important news items today about broadband, one from the politician in charge of government policy in this area, the other from the company with the biggest role in making the fast internet happen.
Identification of the important news of the day.
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Lost in the buzz following Christie Hefner's resignation from Playboy in December was other, more important news: the appointment of Jimmy Jellinek as editorial director, making him the man in charge of saving the magazine.
The most important news of the day is gold hitting successive new highs, while the western world struggles with resolving their debt loads and the East entrenches for the inevitable negative impact of a resolution.
It all sounds great, but we've been hearing the same message about open data and online services from this and the previous government and journalists had pitched up in Hertfordshire briefed to expect some important news on the coalition's technology policy.
Today the New England Journal of Medicine has published a Spanish study comparing two versions of the Mediterranean diet with a low fat diet and the result is important news if you are interested in reducing your risk of heart disease and stroke.
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The initial claims news will not affect the week's most important economic news, which is Friday's non-farm payrolls figure for February, because the weekly claims figures are for the beginning of March.
The market place is also awaiting important fundamental news due out Thursday and Friday.
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Second, and perhaps most important, News Corp. did not want to tick off MLB.
McDonnell said it's important for news consumers these days to be savvy so they can spot conflicts of interest and assess the reliability of what they're reading.
Macworld may be over, but for a group of developers the most important Apple news has yet to be unveiled: the much-anticipated iPhone software development kit (SDK).
If it reflects economic fundamentals, then it implies that when important global news occurs, it is usually the sort of news that makes markets more volatile rather than stabilising them.
After the Lakers coaching theatrics dominated the first half of the sports week, the week closed with extremely important financial news for both Time Warner Cable and local restauranteurs across Los Angeles.
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"People care about the country and where we're headed right now, " he says, adding that news cable has become an increasingly important player in the news marketplace, and his network an increasingly valuable voice within it.
And that is also a very important piece of news for younger women with breast cancer.
Lula said he had been given "the most important piece of news a human being can receive after a five-month treatment against cancer".
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