• Universities with a high drop-out rate tend to keep quiet about it or, if they do own up, to market it as a sign of academic rigour.

    ECONOMIST: Chile

  • Business leaders need to understand that if, in the end, it is going to be disclosed that they have erred, it's better to own up as quickly as possible in order to have a hand in making repairs.

    CNN: Real leaders don't 'double-down'

  • The sooner Europe and Japan come up with their own proposals on agriculture, the easier they will find it to convince other WTO members that they are negotiating from a position of goodwill.

    ECONOMIST: Doubts about Doha | The

  • President Obama is on his way back from France where he just met with the leaders of the 20 largest economies in the world, where he urged our European friends to step up and stabilize their own economies because if they fail, it will affect the whole world.

    WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: We Have to Increase the Pace

  • "It is time for political parties to own up when they lose, " Chihuri said.

    CNN: Zimbabwe police chief threatens use of firearms

  • Never mind zapping movies and sitcoms over the Web (that is so Nineties)--Semel is betting on "social media, " letting some of Yahoo's 200 million registered customers create their own content and share it with whomever they choose, linking up in rich multimedia cliques to swap pithy commentary and photos, songs, games, home videos and interactive fare that users themselves will invent.

    FORBES: Intertaining Yourself

  • She just figured they were something Kercher had failed to clean up, or perhaps it was from her own newly pierced ears, she said.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • U.S. Swimming pushed for the Chinese to be banned, but then when it happens to one of their own, they can't stand up for what they believe in.

    CNN: Double Standard

  • More importantly, the decision is a major boost to cheap life-saving drugs in a country where the healthcare system cannot cope with the demands on it and most people end up buying their own medicines if they can afford to.

    BBC: Is Novartis ruling a watershed?

  • The MEX-BT5000 acts as a hands free kit for any Bluetooth phone (although we're sure they'd prefer if it was one of their own), giving you access to up to 50 of your contacts and six of your speed dial entries through its "high resolution" screen and integrated noise-reducing micophone.

    ENGADGET: Sony's MEX-BT5000 car stereo with Bluetooth

  • Who should own what share of the company and how would they decide on a fair way to divvy it up?

    FORBES: A Cautionary Tale: Friendship, Business Ethics, and Bad Breakups (Acts I and II)

  • It's for each individual to make up their own minds as they do over things like the death penalty, abortion and so on.

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  • In fact, when their Chief Economist went to China, they posted those comments on their own channel and then they put it up on the Facebook page.

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  • If member states are really concerned about beefing up the Union's international role, they should think about their own willingness to fund greater capabilities rather than their ingenuity when it comes to thinking up new institutional structures.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Europe after Lisbon

  • It is that they actively try to fulfil their own apocalyptic prophecies in the hope of speeding up Christ's return.

    ECONOMIST: Religious rights

  • They therefore feel no urgency to go out and drum up business, since it will eventually come in on its own throughout the year.

    FORBES: Digitizing A Chinese Export Center For E-Commerce

  • Rather than refuse it, they have tended to pocket the fees while drawing up contracts designed to limit their own legal liability if trouble hits.

    ECONOMIST: Parmalat

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