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...Many shareholders aren?t happy. According to Robin Ashby of the Northern Rock Small Shareholders Group, an "overwhelming majority" of shareholders at a meeting on Monday in the northern English city of Newcastle where the lender is based, agreed in an informal vote that Branson?s offer undervalued the company. Shareholders still have the power to block a sale because the bank has not officially been declared insolvent, despite its reliance on an approximate $47 billion bail out made by the Bank of England in September, when Northern Rock revealed its financial difficulties. "The directors need to be aware that...
...campaign platform would look like. Laures’s decision comes only days before official campaigning is set to begin for this year’s elections. Candidates are not allowed to begin drawing from their allotted $400 campaign budgets, seeking student group endorsements, or otherwise soliciting votes until 12:01 p.m. on Thursday. AN OUTSIDE CHANCEHad Laures and Oakland moved forward with their candidacy, they would have represented the third outsider ticket in a race that can claim only two participants with any UC experience—presidential candidate Sundquist and running mate Randall S. Sarafa...
...most electable based on how the electoral map will look, saying, “I am the strongest candidate on the Democratic side in these battleground areas.” Anti-Clintonites have cited a recent Zogby poll that showed 50 percent of the country would never vote for her, the highest percentage of opposition for any candidate of either party. But according to a recent Times/CBS News poll, voters in Iowa and New Hampshire consider her the most electable among Democrats...
...Ultimately, despite the fact that the vast majority of differences are between parties and not within them, the candidates on each side do vary in character, background, and ideology. Since nobody truly knows who the best candidate would be for each party politically, we should actually vote for the person we like the best. A radical suggestion, I know...
...part the family spokesman, Glasenapp, 28, said he tends to vote conservative but, because of frustration with the conservatives in power right now, was considering four candidates: Romney, Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. "I haven't been too impressed with Republicans lately, so I'm looking at everybody," he said. "I would be interested to know what each of them has to say, or would be trying to do, to keep this from happening again. You shouldn't be sitting in your living room wondering whether someone with a history of violent acts is going to break through your...