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...Illarionov?s decision to resign comes at a moment when the Kremlin is escalating its intention to dramatically hike gas prices in Ukraine by as much as a fourfold increase. On Saturday (December 31), Putin made Ukrainians another offer: Sign on the new price now, start paying three months later. Unless they accept the offer, which they hardly can, Putin ordered Gazprom to turn off the tap at 10 a.m. on January 1. On Saturday (December 31), Illarionov told TIME: ?Over the last 48 hours things between Russia and Ukraine have been developing under the worst possible scenario...
...Returns Is there no end to investors' renewed love affair with the Internet? Shares in eBay leapt 14% after the online marketer last week cheered a 53% leap in second-quarter profit. After its own fourfold rise in quarterly earnings, Google's shares lingered around $300 - a long way from last August's $85 debut price - and at least one analyst predicts they will hit $400. And revenue and profit unveiled at Yahoo! had a healthy glow, too. Innovation has been key at all three, says Standard & Poor's Internet equity analyst Scott Kessler: "They have amazing virtual research labs...
...eating out more than ever, and more than ever they are eating fast food. Since Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's in a Chicago suburb back in 1955 (burgers: 15¢), fast food has grown to a $45 billion business. The increase from ten years ago is nearly fourfold. From burgers to fried chicken to pizza, fast food has become the quintessentially American dining experience: a perfect expression of those bedrock values of efficiency, thriftiness and speed...
...delay of the group's latest album. All the more irritating, then, that Crazy Frog's Axel F, mixing the theme tune from the Beverly Hills Cop movie with an infuriating mobile-phone ring tone - think two-stroke scooters voiced by an animated frog - outsold Coldplay's single fourfold last week, according to music retailer HMV. Exploiting the Crazy Frog's appeal (the ring tone is sold across Europe, the U.S. and Australia), the track looks set to top the British singles chart this week, a first for a ring tone. That "might be a little embarrassing" for Coldplay, admits...
...unpromising as things are for ordinary Philippine workers, they are equally dismal for the government, which has been nursing a budget deficit that has ballooned fourfold since 1998 to $3.6 billion last year. Manila has been borrowing heavily to run the government?since 1998, public-sector debt has increased by 83% to $96.8 billion, a rate of growth that many say is unsustainable. Without significant changes, "we'll have bigger problems down the road," warns deputy central-bank governor Amando Tetangco, "including the possibility of a crisis...