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Some Newspapers, Tracking Readers Online, Shift
In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing would be almost unthinkable. But newspapers have always been a peculiar business, one that has stubbornly, proudly clung ...
Alan Murray, Raju Narisetti, Online operations, Particular product, Advertising revenue, All keywords...
nytimes.com
5 hours ago
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British Advertising Regulator Making Itself Felt Online
PARIS — In the digital world, the most effective advertising is not always advertising in the traditional sense. Instead of buying ad space or time on a Web site, many ...
Google, European Commission, Social media, Advertising Standards Authority, United States, All keywords...
nytimes.com
9 hours ago
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In Europe, Fund-Raising Lessons From Americans
LONDON — It’s tailgating season, when alumni gather in stadium parking lots to enjoy impromptu picnics, cheer on the college team — and fend off requests for donations. But try ...
United States, USD, Cambridge, Jamil Salmi, GBP, All keywords...
nytimes.com
9 hours ago
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The Optimistic Thought Experiment
In the case of Britain, the financial mania of 1720 centered on the South Sea Company, which proposed to open the South Seas (and all the great wealth therein) to ...
United States, China, London, France, City, All keywords...
hoover.org
1 day ago
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Defence spending in a time of austerity : The chronic problem of exorbitantly expensive weapons is becoming acute
THERE were the starlings: aerobatic teams with mesmerising group displays. There were the albatrosses: Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and Airbus’s A380, heavy airliners that still manage long, effortless flight. And there ...
America, Europe, Robert Gates, Britain, Afghanistan, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Game resumed : Iran pockets Bushehr and plays on
IT WAS meant as a marker for the world’s readiness to accept Iran’s right to benefit from the peaceful uses of nuclear power, despite its provocative behaviour. By this reasoning, ...
Islamic Republic of Iran, Bushehr nuclear reactor, Russia, America, France, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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The call of the wild : How Britain fell in love again with nature
ROGER DEAKIN, a much-loved nature writer, called swimming a “subversive activity”. He embarked on a watery journey across Britain from his home near the river Waveney, which forms the border ...
Britain, ROGER DEAKIN, Much-loved nature writer, River Waveney, Daniel Start, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Dismantling the welfare state : Thanks to the new austerity, the complexion of Scottish politics is changing
ALEX SALMOND’S has always been a high-wire act. First minister of devolved Scotland since 2007 in a minority government, he has had to woo, cajole and jolly along rival parties, ...
ALEX SALMOND, Scotland, Britain, GBP, Scottish National Party (SNP), All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Brimming over : Start-ups are shaking up an old and staid industry
BEHIND a homely blue garage door in a genteel corner of Hammersmith sits Prudence, a complicated and expensive young lady, and the focal point of an ancient British industry that ...
Britain, Sipsmith, London, GBP, Sam Galsworthy, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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When I'm 66 : And the reforms won’t stop there
NOT SO long ago the right to receive a state pension from the age of 65 seemed inalienable. That threshold had, after all, first been set in 1925. It was ...
Adair Turner, Financial Services Authority, Britain, GBP, Free bus travel, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Britain's high-minded government : David Cameron’s coalition will struggle to agree on crudely populist policies. That is both welcome and perilous
LOOK around the democratic world, and it would be easy to conclude that voters are very angry indeed. In country after country, political leaders seem intent on singling out scapegoats, ...
David Cameron, Britain, Nick Clegg, Australia, Lib Dems, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Tough-guy Sarko : Drowning in unpopularity and beset by scandal, the French president lashes out at some easy targets
AFTER a three-week holiday at his wife’s family villa on France’s Mediterranean coast, President Nicolas Sarkozy returned to work this week for what could be the most testing autumn of ...
Nicolas Sarkozy, President, France, Liliane Bettencourt, Mediterranean, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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On British universities, Myanmar, bubbles, American railroads, Brussels, Japanese society, Proposition 8 :
University challenge SIR – You were right that too many universities see the international student market as the panacea for their domestic ills (“Hustling spires”, August 7th). In a recent ...
Britain, Milton Friedman, European Union, Peter AinsworthManaging, Bodleian Library, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Do-gooders in 1790s London : A bid to end slavery
The Clapham Sect: How Wilberforce’s Circle Transformed Britain. By Stephen Tomkins. Lion Hudson; 272 pages; $16.95 and £10.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHE group called the “Clapham Sect” is best known ...
Stephen Tomkins, GBP, William Wilberforce, John Thornton, Britain, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Wiggle room : The IMF offers indebted governments some reassurance
ONE consequence of the deepest recession since the Depression has been the biggest peacetime build-up of public debt the rich world has ever seen. Some reckon that the debt position ...
International Monetary Fund, America, Britain, Greece, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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