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| HSBC expects mainland pretax profit of US$1b |
| On 05-08-2007. |
| HSBC Holdings (SEHK: 0005, announcements, news) is poised to see recurring pretax profit from its mainland operations top US$1 billion by next year and become the biggest profit contributor of all the group's emerging market operations before 2010, according to Peter Wong Tong-shun, executive director of the bank's Asia-Pacific unit. ... |
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| Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007, at the North Carolina General Assembly |
| On 02-08-2007. |
| ADJOURNMENT EVE: Lawmakers shuffled between committee rooms and floor sessions, while lobbyists tracked downed advocates for their favorite cause as the General Assembly pushed to adjourn Thursday. Legislative leaders tried to remove obstacles to new landfill regulations and to find $20 million for toll roads. But they appeared settled on how to pay for one high-risk insurance pool. House and Senate negotiators had ... |
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| Health plans all talk, no consensus |
| On 29-07-2007. |
It wasn't Iraq. It wasn't illegal immigration. And it wasn't abortion.
If there was one issue that could have swamped the Democratic presidential debate held Monday in Charleston, it was health care.
"One of the most popular topics that we got questions on was health care," said debate moderator Anderson Cooper of CNN. "We, frankly, were overwhelmed with videos on health care, therefore we put several of them ... |
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| Fund for wife helps others fight the battle she lost |
| On 25-07-2007. |
| AS one SEAHAWKS fan, Mark Collins has seen one lot of very hard-fought battles over the years. Some were waged on the football field. Others happened off it -- like the battle he helped fight using Save Our Seahawks, one group he founded to keep former owner Ken Behring from moving the team out of Seattle in the mid-1990s. ... |
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| Insurers in cherry-pick mode |
| On 21-07-2007. |
Contract of golf club's restaurant with City of Sarasota is canceled
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The following ZIP codes remain open for new home insurance underwriting by Security First Insurance. All other ZIP codes are closed to new customers unless they are former customers of Traveler's ... |
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| Humana rolls out one-person plans |
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Avicena plans confirmatory ALS trial Analysis: Reviving the HIV vaccine hunt Published: July 16, 2007 at 8:21 PMBy ROSALIE WESTENSKOW
one renewed emphasis on the critical, but elusive HIV/AIDS vaccine is needed, along with more funding, to mitigate the disease's rampant spread in developing countries, health experts said Monday. Analysis: Curry studied in Alzheimer's Published: July 16, 2007 at 8:14 PMBy ED SUSMAN ... |
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