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...company sees things differently. Although its headquarters are in Leuven, where AB InBev can trace its brewing roots back to 1366, the firm's power brokers are Brazilian investment bankers who manage a global empire with a workforce of 120,000 and more than 200 brands of beer, including Beck's, Labatt, Bass and Löwenbräu. It has expanded rapidly, following a series of rapacious mergers and acquisitions in recent years, most notably its takeover of Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch in 2008 - after which InBev became AB InBev. But that move also saddled the company with huge...
...filed this suit because we believe that I, like many other persons of minority background, are victims of police abuse of power and discretion against minorities,” he said...
...first anniversary of Barack Obama's Inauguration was an ominous sign for Democrats for the midterm elections ahead and a potentially crippling blow to Obama's entire agenda. Brown ran explicitly on a promise to be the "41st Senator," who would give the Republicans the power to block what he called "the trillion-dollar health care bill that is being forced on the American people," one that will "raise taxes, hurt Medicare, destroy jobs and run our nation deeper into debt...
...expense of the country. He doesn't expect the recent verdicts to have the intended effect of muffling discontent. The sham trial, he says, only further illustrates the corruption within the regime, and will only encourage people "to throw themselves into the cause against the monopoly in power...
...hardliners and reformers within the secretive Politburo, the inner circle of communist party leaders. Even though the next big political event - the national congress in which key officials will be elevated (and demoted) - isn't scheduled until 2011, analysts say the recent crackdown is part of a jockeying for power in the run up to the meeting...