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average 62% of loans in failed buyouts Private returns to investors in relation to law quality, fund characteristics and corporate governance mechanisms Persistence in returns among top performing funds Share prices higher in aftermath of LBO mainly associated with pre-buyout undervaluation of firm, incentive alignment and increased interest tax shields Risk adjusted performance of U.S. buyouts significantly greater than S&P index Private returns to investors enhanced by contextdependent corporate governance

FRENCH RAILWAY FACES CRITICISM in US for WWII ROLE: Sep 1, at 7:12 pm ET by Antonio Gonzalez, Associated Press Writer, contributions to the story by Associated Press writer Angela Charlton in Paris. news.yahoo.com ORLANDO, Fla. - The French national railway's hope to bid on the first high-speed tracks in the United States is running into resistance from Holocaust survivors because of the company's role in transporting Jews to Nazi death camps. One of those leading the charge

transformer l'AFP en "mégaphone gratuit" du gouvernement. Associated Press et Reuters L’AFP est la première agence de presse francophone et la troisième plus importante au niveau mondial :  six langues diffusées et 165 pays couverts par 81 nationalités La première est l’agence étatsunienne [Associated Press (AP). Créée en 1848, elle existe maintenant sous forme de coopérative et dotée d’un statut de société à but non lucratif. Associated Press jouit d’un quasi monopole sur le marché américain, ce

des responsables américains, le quotidien affirme que la cible n'était autre qu'un convoi transportant des armes sophistiquées dans la banlieue de Damas. Son destinataire : le Hezbollah libanais. D'après d'autres officiels américains, cités par Associated Press, la cargaison comportait des missiles antiaériens russes de type SA-17. Des armes qui, aux mains du mouvement islamiste chiite libanais, pourraient "changer la donne" stratégiquement dans le conflit qui l'oppose à Israël. "Des missiles de longue

Vietnam. Membre de l'agence international Associated Press à Saïgon, il va suivre la guerre du Vietnam à partir de 1966. La petite fille brûlée au Napalm devient l'une des plus célèbres images de la guerre de Vietnam et obtient le prix Pulitzer(prix américain remis dans différents domaines, allant du journalisme à la musique). En photojournalisme,il est considéré parmi les plus prestigieux du monde. en 1973. Nick Ut continuera à travailler pour AP (associted press presse américaine) après la guerre d'abord

narrow 'picture in our head', generally resistant to easy change. It usually carries a pejorative meaning – in contrast to the sociological process of typification. Scott, J. et al., 2005. Oxford dictionary of sociology, Oxford: Oxford University Press (pp638-639) Human resources definition: stereotyping us the act of judging people according to our assumption about the group to which they belong. It is based on the belief that people from a specific group share similar traits and behave in a similar

often identifiedwere headache, fever, and "total body pain" (dolor en todo el cuerpo). Dengue, however, was also associated by informantswith symptoms of eye discharge and photophobia, which suggest conjunctivitis,not dengue. Discussionof dengue was complicatedby a local classificationof fevers into low- and high-grade(irritaci6nor calenturaandfiebre, respectively). Fevers associated with classical dengue do not meet local definitionsforfiebre, and confusion can thereforeresultfrom using this word

average of 13 percent per year. India, for example, have seen it per capita income grow above 4 per cent per annum in the 1990s. Growth and poverty reduction have been particularly strong (Goswanni et al 2002). Global economic integration is associated with higher rates of economic growth and a better income distribution between countries. However, critics suggest that international economic integration has significant negative effects. For example it is claimed that global economic integration

46%. The other strengths were all attributed to the park that it was created to attract children and to bring family together.             The weaknesses of Disney are basically problems that were not foreseen by the management. According to Associated Press (2007), it has a target of 5.6 million visitors in a year however, it fell short, and only 5.2 million came in 2005. In 2006, only 4 million was reported who visited the company. According to Boland (2005), there are still a lack of rides and

"%&'("$)*+)&"##*#'$,! ! ! ! ! (-./01)23)'44/1)2 out attacks, for the maintenance of its quasi-military apparatus, for training and indoctrination of its members, for contributions to the Taliban regime but also for the occasional support of associated terrorist organisations. It is currently very difficult to make a reliable estimate of the operating cost of Al-Qaeda, as it now acts through a large number of cells and satellite terror groups which are more or less autonomous. The means these