Hours before the bailiffs froze the company's accounts, the government sharply raised the ante in the dispute, indicating that it might double its demand for back taxes from Yukos by adding charges for 2001 to the case.
Best Buy said profit from continuing operations in its second quarter, ended Aug. 30, increased to $140 million, or 42 cents a share, thanks in part to strong demand for back-to-school items like computers.
Prices have climbed rapidly because of a manufacturing pickup in China; its imports and exports grew sharply in December.Let me tell you how it will beMMX, an iron-ore mining company owned by Eike Batista, one of Latin America's richest men, became the latest big Brazilian firm to receive a whopping demand for back taxes.
Claire Savage reports on the dramatic increase in demand for back-to-work programmes.
That momentum and an increasing demand for back-office software in the cloud is really driving the investment, he explained.
Wal-Mart earlier on Thursday said soft demand for back-to-school apparel led to weaker-than-expected sales in August as consumers sought to stretch their dollar in a slow economy.
Echoing Dell's outlook, Hewlett-Packard last week described the demand for back-to-school consumer products as "subdued," and CEO Carly Fiorina Carly Fiorina said the company doesn't see any signs of improvement until early 2002.
The English soldiers under John Norrey's orders, who remained out of Antwerp, kidnapped the abbot of St. Michael's Abbey in demand for back pays, and William of Orange's had to mediate to placate them.
He was hit with a $3.2-million 3.2-million judgmalpracticerimonious split with two lawyer sons, a demand for back rent on his law office and a suit by granddaughter Michela to recoup a $1.6-million trust fund she won for skiing injudgmentnd which she sand she hacrimonioushe firm.
Djezzy, the Algerian subsidiary of the Egyptian mobile phone service provider Orascom Telecom, unsuccessfully challenged government demands for back taxes totaling $597 million.
Besides the inquiries into its voter registration efforts, Acorn faces demands for back taxes by the Internal Revenue Service and various state tax authorities.
