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"When we came out to kick off, the majority of people were Americans.

"Khodorkovsky is shocked by the recent talk of selling off the majority part of his company for almost nothing," Mr. Schmidt said.

Proving that talent does indeed mask almost everything, Strickland was waived Thursday after the Washington Wizards paid off the majority of his contract.

Under Mr. Immelt, the company has pared its offerings — the plastics business was sold off, the majority stake in NBC Universal is being sold to Comcast, and, of course, GE Capital has been whittled down.

It's not uncommon to find a small percentage of polluters giving off the majority of pollution; that was the case with cars before the requirement of the catalytic converter.

Rather than compete in an era of merciless transformation, the families that owned the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal sold off the majority of their holdings.

We were in the play-offs the majority of the season and fell by the way".

PHOTOS AND TEXT BY PATRICK TSAI After the media frenzy last summer about Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park's blatant and badly done Disney World rip-offs, the majority of the attractions were summarily demolished.

Just 18percentt of Americans say they're better off financially than they were a year ago, with 29percentt say they're worse off, and the majority -- 51percentt -- that they're around the same.

But their voices would be sealed within the echo chamber of extremism and sealed off from the majority of Americans who honestly just want our common problems solved.

"Whatever his stake or incentive was in Invesco, he will almost certainly be much better off holding the majority of 'Woodford asset management'," Miller adds.