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Advertising: Nothing More Than Feelings
Admen have made a marketing guru of Daniel Kahneman, a prizewinning psychologistFIRST, you realise it’s a gorilla. The opening strains of Phil Collins’s "In the Air Tonight" are playing; the beast is...
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The Best Way To Cope With Hamid Karzai's Latest Stunt Is To Deal With His...
IT IS hard to say what is most infuriating about Hamid Karzai: his kleptocratic entourage or his profound ingratitude to the Western soldiers whose blood has kept him in power. But his talent for...
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BlackRock Is The Biggest Investor In The World — Is Its Dominance A Problem?
ASK conspiracy theorists who they think really runs the world, and they will probably point to global banks, such as Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase. Oil giants such as Exxon Mobil and...
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DEUTSCHE BANK: The Performance Of Global Markets In 2013 Was A Necessary...
Deutsche Bank interest rate strategists led by Dominic Konstam compare the story in 2013 to that in 2012 in a note to clients, writing (emphasis added):In the end 2013 went broadly according to plan,...
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OBAMA: We've Got A 50/50 Shot Of An Acceptable Nuke Deal With Iran
President Barack Obama warned Saturday that Israel's vision of an "ideal" nuclear agreement with Iran was unrealistic and put the chance of any acceptable final deal emerging at no more than 50/50.But...
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JPMorgan Emails Show The Bank Favored Hiring Well-Connected Chinese People To...
(Reuters) - Internal JPMorgan Chase & Co <JPM.N> emails and computer files being examined by U.S. authorities show that the bank favored hiring people from prominent Chinese families in order...
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Atlanta-Bound Flight Diverted After 16-Year-Old Boy Dies Onboard
(Reuters) - A 16-year-old boy from a military family died on Saturday while traveling on an Atlanta-bound Delta Air Lines flight to celebrate the Christmas holidays with relatives, officials said.The 9...
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US Spy Agency Boasts 'Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach' With New Logo
The National Reconnaissance Office launched a new satellite called NROL-39 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California late Thursday, but it's their mission logo that's getting much more interest.The...
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Vin Diesel Shares His Emotional Moment With Paul Walker's Family
“I thought they needed my strength, but realized when I got there and broke down before his family, that it was I who needed theirs,” the actor wrote on FacebookVin Diesel’s outpouring of grief for his...
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Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power In Texas And Arkansas After Ice Storm
DALLAS (Reuters) - Freezing weather gripped parts of the United States on Saturday, with hundreds of thousands of people in Texas and Arkansas coping in the cold without power after a winter storm made...
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What Happens When You Fire Someone — And Totally Screw It Up
Some lessons in business cause you personal pain. Others cause pain only to those around you. And, a few cause pain to pretty much everyone.This is one of those cause-everyone-pain stories.In my former...
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Texas College Student Shot And Killed By Campus Police Officer
A 23-year-old college student was shot dead Friday by a campus police officer during a traffic stop near the campus of University of the Incarnate Word, local ABC affiliate KTRK is reporting.Cameron...
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SpaghettiOs Apologizes For Pearl Harbor Tweet
SpaghettiOs apologizes for Pearl Harbor tweetCampbell Soup apologized Saturday for a tweet by its SpaghettiOs brand that marked the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks with a picture of its smiling...
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NO REMORSE: Bernie Madoff Still Doesn't Care What You Think Of Him
There is a way that one expects visits with jailed criminals to go: typically, there's guilt, contrition, the accepting of responsibility. Not so with Bernie Madoff, serving 150 years, the executor of...
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Chinese Ships Are Sailing Near Disputed Islands Claimed By Japan
Three Chinese ships sailed through disputed waters off Tokyo-controlled islands in the East China Sea on Sunday, the Japanese Coast guard said, the first time since Beijing announced an Air Defence...
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This Hoodie Is So Insanely Popular You Have To Wait Months To Get It
The insane popularity of a single sweatshirt has forced its maker to expand into four new factories within the last year just to meet the soaring demand.The zip-up hoodie, made by San Francisco startup...
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US Coast Guard Rescues Fisherman Stranded Off Long Island
US Coast Guard rescues commercial fisherman after his boat capsizes off of NY coastMONTAUK, N.Y. (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued a commercial fisherman hanging onto a life raft in the waters off...
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The Navy Produced These Incredible Photos Showing Pearl Harbor Today Compared...
On Dec. 7, 1941, the U.S. Naval fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii suffered a devastating attack from the air and sea.The Japanese assault began at 7:48 a.m., resulting in the death of 2,402...
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Yahoo Buys Live Concert Streaming Platform Evntlive
Marissa Mayer has made another Yahoo acquisition, this time for an online platform which live streams concerts – Evntlive.Terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed, but Yahoo will be closing down...
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The 20 Best Television Moments Of 2013
What a year for TV – so many moments of audacious creativity, from groundbreaking dramas like Game of Thrones to that VH1 flick about TLC. From the Red Wedding to "Red Light Special," these were the...
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