One hot spot for deal seekers is Mexico, which is struggling to reclaim its place on the tourism map.
Energy stocks were a bright spot as deal making in the sector and a rise in oil prices drove shares higher.
In August, London police brought in a team of seven Romanian police officers for a week to help spot and deal with "dippers" in town for the Olympics.
Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are expected to order a sweeping look of how the U.S. military can spot and deal with potential problems ranging from behavioral issues to security, a senior U.S. military official told CNN.
The lack of a notification center, combined with an interface that periodically overwhelms function with form (such as the highly stylized but limited email view), only compounds problems if it's genuinely vital that you spot and deal with an emergency in minutes.
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Still, opponents and allies alike say he often tried to find the sweet spot of a deal, a seam where both sides could claim victory.
This numerical blind spot remains even when the deal clearly favours the discounted product.
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Company executives were forced to carry suitcases of cash if they wanted to seal a deal on the spot.
That said, the Embraer deal is one bright spot in an otherwise dreary period.
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It also suggests a role for new marketplaces that facilitate the spot trading of insight, and deal room services that allow for private information brokering.
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The contest for top spot seems to be a done deal so far as the bookmakers are concerned, with Peter Robinson the clear favourite to retain the First Minister's job.
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But Ritchie Bros. can look at the global deal flow for pipelayers and spot 100 other pipelayers coming onto the market from Southeast Asia.
The BBVA deal with Banomer - which Banacci tried to spoil with an offer of its own - knocked Banacci off the number one spot, a position which the Citigroup deal will help it regain.
Spot what's hot, cut a deal with whoever owns it, write the code and get a Mac version to market as soon as possible.
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Bunn, playing only his second game for the club after joining on a month-long loan deal from Blackburn, said his spot-kick heroics from were down to doing pre-match research.
The coaches on the Big 12's spring teleconference were already talking about the Cotton Bowl having a spot in the rotation as if it was a done deal.
Rules introduced by Labour allowed police to deal with public disorder through on-the-spot fines.
This is a problem for railway bridges too, according to Network Rail, and it employs scuba divers among its maintenance crew in order to spot damage to bridges - not to mention abseilers - to deal with some of its seafront lines.
As further evidence of Ergen's shrewdness, Merrill Lynch's Jayant notes that Ergen got away without having to adhere to the breakup clause that required him to buy Hughes' 81% stake in satellite wholesaler PanAmSat (nasdaq: SPOT - news - people ), in the event the deal didn't go through.
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