LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19 -- Call it the battle of Big Oil vs. Silicon Valley with a whole lot of Hollywood funding thrown in.
However the appeal and extra funding thrown at the Highlands seems to have been insufficient to save Mr Alexander, who joked during a distillery tour with Mr Clegg that he would "hammer the Nats" as he hammered the bung into a cask of whisky.
He still expects opponents of the new tips to lose interest and the finance ministry to release the necessary funds, throwing more money at a problem that has swallowed billions.
But as the credit crunch causes firms in America and Europe to flounder for lack of funds, throwing supply-chains into disarray, Japan's trading-company model seems to have some merit.This is because the sogo shosha, or trading houses, have always done far more than make a living from arbitrage and commissions: they also provide credit to the companies within their folds.
ATHENS — Major banks and pension funds threw their weight Wednesday behind Greece's bond swap offer to private creditors, raising the likelihood that the deal would go through and a new international bailout package would be secured.
The most prosperous ones, which rely least on Delhi for discretionary funds, throw up the strongest leaders, who often influence what happens in Delhi too.What is new is the arrival of floating middle-class voters who swing between parties depending on how they perform, not on promises of rewards for their groupThe mightiest satraps pay the least attention to national parties.
A lot of the funds throw in higher-quality municipal debt along with the junk.
Such funds throw around terms like risk parity, equity long-short, market neutral and absolute return.
Details of the insurance scheme are still not in the public domain and extra funds thrown at them are demented until such time as we know the full extent of the damage which the banks appear only able to refuse to volunteer.
The whole world has weighed in on solutions: Combine online with newsprint, news blogs with legacy investigative reporters, news aggregation with editorial curation, then crowd-fund, throw in some Google analytics, and subscription and accessibility fan clubs.
