And he said that industry-wide safety, previously overseen by Railtrack, was now being dealt with by the more independent, non-profit making company Railway Safety.

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While it was at its peak Apple became the company with the highest capitalization of any company anywhere, Q4 profit in 2012 higher than any non-oil company had ever posted, in effect making it the most successful company in the world.

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Hoechst, which gave the American patent in 1994 to a non-profit organisation, will now transfer the worldwide rights outside America to a one-product company, making it immune from boycotts.

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