• These macro factors matter more than the same old so-and-so is a great CEO and such-and-such company has performed well in the past.

    FORBES: Memo To Investors: Bernanke And Obama Are Your Business Partners

  • And so the thing the President did -- and I was so proud of him -- is when we had the meeting with BP -- and they were cooperative in the meeting.

    WHITEHOUSE: Vice President Biden on Congressman Barton��s Apology to BP

  • On a recent visit, a guest marveled at Case's hubris: The Sonoran Desert setting is so picturesque, the activities so singular (and space-demanding--the resort spans 317 acres), the staff so large and highly educated, and the variety of activities so extensive that the idea of all this being both exportable and profitable seems counterintuitive.

    FORBES: Ballancing Act

  • All of those firms--the excellent, the good and the so-so--compete to place their cash into companies that need large venture investments, and that have the potential to multiply them several times over.

    FORBES

  • The defendant was not quite like all the others, the hustlers and the hoodlums and the petty and not-so-petty criminals that throng courts the world over.

    BBC: No smoke without fire

  • The boom has all the standard features of an oil-price shock, except that, compared with the more familiar cases of 1973-74 and 1979-80, and the not-so-noticed case of 1990-91, this one happened in reverse.

    ECONOMIST: Oil and the new economy

  • Not least when they pander to a British public that no longer shares many of the fundamental values of the United States and our approach to the world and so distance themselves from the "special relationship" that has served both nations -- and the world -- so well.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Waning "Special Relationship?"

  • The Democratic campaigns now turn their attention to the Louisiana primary and Nebraska and Washington caucuses Saturday, the Maine caucuses Sunday and the so-called Potomac primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia next Tuesday.

    CNN: Analysis: McCain clear leader; split decision may help Obama

  • Secondly, the President is going to be proposing an increase in funding for child care and -- the so-called Child Care and Development Fund to serve an additional 235, 000 children in America.

    WHITEHOUSE: Key Investments for Middle-Class Families

  • There is the fait accompli strategy -- stay under the radar -- and the passive aggressive strategy, acts of terror used to paralyze and so on -- so the bottom line must be balance.

    CNN: Trump: Europe is terrific place for investment

  • The law is so new--and the scandal that inspired it still so fresh in the public's memory--that its violation has put the Governor on the defensive, even though it was Bush who pushed the measure through the legislature last spring.

    CNN: Is Florida bad for kids?

  • The council said there were difficult driving conditions in the north and east of the county, and the so-called "mountain road" - the B4329 - closed.

    BBC: Wales

  • Ironically, the wood inlays are so impeccably finished they look artificial and both the hand-stitched upholstery and leather-trimmed dashboard are finished so precisely it looks as if the work were done by machine.

    FORBES: Rolls-Royce Ghost Review: The Spirit is Willing

  • In other cases, publishers requested that sales figures be removed entirely, despite giving the more than so-and-so routine.

    FORBES: The Top Selling Female E-book Authors

  • They gained illegal access to the roof, secured a remote satellite in an out-of-the-way place, and situated it so that the signal beamed off the next-door building into Billy's office.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Then We Came to the End'

  • My own view is that the behavior of the Chinese government is so opprobrious -- and the stakes for Western interests if this behavior is replicated elsewhere in the communist world so great -- that the United States would be compelled to act even if other, allied states chose not to.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: "US Relations With China"

  • Indeed, a Jacksonian president would recognize that it would be far better to expend the US's power to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad - an open and active foe of the US - and so influence the nature of a post-Assad government.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Jacksonian Foreign Policy Option

  • For his part, Zaak has steered a judicious course, ostensibly avoiding the obvious and the not-so-obvious pitfalls, and has refrained from pressing her.

    NPR: Somalia's Farah: Humanizing a Broken Place

  • Jorge was on the podium at the opening 12 rounds of the season - only the fourth rider in history to do so - and crucially he has finished every race in the top four, including seven wins so far.

    BBC: Matt Roberts on MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo

  • The suicide bombers -- who have become known as "black widows" -- are dressed head-to-toe in black and wear the so-called "Martyr's belt" filled with explosives.

    CNN: Chechnya's 'black widow' bombers

  • But even if they were to do that, it leaves unresolved the great British debate - about whether the UK's indebtedness is so great, and the confidence of investors in our credit-worthiness so fragile, that the chancellor dare not cut taxes or increase job-creating infrastructure investment.

    BBC: Growth vs debt reduction

  • It was not in 2003, as most of the people know, but that has started since 1993, when the government of Sudan - the Arab-dominated government and their allies, militia, which is so-called Janjaweed Arab militias - they attacked the whole area of the western Darfur state and torched, burnt to ashes over 50 villages in one day.

    NPR: Activists Host Darfur Observance Day in L.A.

  • The new band includes an American guitarist, the first single release -- 'The Death of You and Me' -- has a New Orleans-style brass section, and the videos for all the singles so far -- including 'Dream On' and 'AKA ...

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • So we need to out-educate, out-build and out-innovate so the economy will create jobs in the future.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing on the President's Budget

  • And the public has been swept away in the colorful--and so far relatively peaceful--campaign festivities, a carnival of flags, revved-up motorbikes and tribal preening that's a welcome distraction from the hardships of a still contracting economy.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • So the popular logic, the common logic is you're actually at an advantage is you lose a game in February so that - like the Patriots were 18-0, and so there was all these pressure on them to go 19-0.

    NPR: Clemens Grilled on Capitol Hill

  • This could include training policies, whistle-blower programs, internal tone-from-the-top communications and so forth.

    FORBES: The World's Most Ethical Companies

  • So perhaps the fact that the two businesses and the likes of Sky and TalkTalk - are scrapping so furiously over the broadband market is good news.

    BBC: The fight for faster broadband

  • The 30, 000 additional troops that I'm announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 -- the fastest possible pace -- so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan | The White House

  • To be sure, the Muslim Brotherhood and its fellow Islamists - notably, al Qaeda franchises throughout the Middle East and beyond, other so-called "Salafists, " Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia and the mullahs of Iran - were becoming increasingly aggressive towards us even before last week's mayhem in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, etc.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 2012 Tipping Point?

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