Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's long, strange odyssey toward international respectability took a welcome twist yesterday, with back-to back announcements from Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain and President Bush that Libya had agreed to give up all efforts to develop unconventional weapons and to permit international inspections.
Many smartphone and tablet-makers are holding back announcements until February's Mobile World Congress or their own standalone shows.
Now, it's down by more than 50% pretty bad, but not as bad as NBCi, which has fallen an additional 79% to a paltry $2.14, a nickel below what NBC is offering to buy back the shares, which is a 43% premium to where it traded before the buy-back announcement.
Now recent back-to-back announcements have highlighted both the volatility of the issue and the ambiguity of the science, and have alternately heartened and dismayed patients.
The back-to-back announcements reminded people around here that New Jersey is a center for military installations, and that South Jersey is particularly tuned in to the rhythm of base-funding politics in Washington.
The back-to-back announcements by Mr. Bush and Mr. Greenspan should come as a relief to financial markets, which have looked on the Fed chairman as a source of steadiness and strength during an otherwise tumultuous period of economic and political uncertainty.
Xu said that the back-to-back announcements, is "just how the timing worked out".
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With Google and Apple making back-to-back announcements about their new mapping efforts in the last few weeks, Microsoft obviously felt a bit left out.
When they said they were just going to show games they certainly weren't lying: 90 minutes of back-to-back announcements, no executive waffle, no awkward celebrity cameos, no mention of Kinect and only one mention about Xbox TV shows.
