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  • Ivory Coast maintains a more-than-370-mile, largely porous, border with Ghana, which farmers, most of whom voted for Mr. Ouattara, exploited after a temporary export embargo he announced in January during the leadership standoff, in which he was internationally recognized as the president-elect.

    Cocoa Smuggling Hampers Ivory Coast Monica Mark 2011

  • The proposed deal would solidify Omnicare's position atop a more-than-$13-billion market for providing pharmacy services to customers like nursing homes.

    Omnicare Takes PharMerica Buyout Offer to Shareholders Jon Kamp 2011

  • That more-than $8 billion swing was the largest in at least four years.

    Euro Rally Against Dollar Fueled by Short Squeeze Stephen L. Bernard 2011

  • The cash offer represents a more-than-41% premium to Quadra's 20-day volume weighted average price in Toronto up to Monday, and it returned Quadra's stock to levels it was trading at in early August, before concerns about euro-zone debt problems and slowing global growth caused a slump in copper prices.

    Polish Miner KGHM to Buy Canadian Copper Producer Edward Welsch 2011

  • The funders of the Greek bailout want to redo their deal that would have limited the losses of private-sector investors to perhaps 10%, rather than the more-than 50% by which Greek bonds have declined in market value.

    You Know What to Do—Now Just Do It Irwin Stelzer 2011

  • I feel bad that we've developed any sort of routine at all, Enid and I, because soon I'm probably going to be someplace else, and, to take just one example, who's going to read from her book, that scrapbook of stories about sleep she's put together in her more-than thirty-one years?

    Please Come to Boston? (Memoir) Rick Rofihe 2011

  • Sometimes people in the entertainment industry, you have a tendency to think of them as less-than or more-than human.

    Titus Andronicus forever: Patrick Stickles on karaoke, uncertainty and defying destiny David Malitz 2010

  • On Thursday, Stuttgart prosecutors said they had dropped allegations that the executives had manipulated the market through a so-called short squeeze of VW shares as Porsche used option and share purchases to amass a more-than-70% stake in the larger auto maker.

    Porsche Deal Faces Delay as Probe Grows Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011

  • Mr. Madoff, who had a more-than-25-year relationship with Mr. Wilpon and Mr. Katz, is serving a 150-year prison sentence after admitting in 2009 to carrying out a decades-long fraud.

    Mets Owners Continue Push for Documents, Testimony From Madoff Trustee Chad Bray 2011

  • Meanwhile, sectors such as agency debt, asset-backed securities and investment-grade corporate bonds sold by banks can expect negative net supply in 2012, a year when a more-than-$750 billion payout is expected from maturing Treasury bonds, investment-grade corporate debt and agency mortgage-backed securities, based on calculations by the bank's New York-based interest-rate strategist, Ira Jersey.

    Shrinking Debt Supply Promises to Buoy Treasurys Min Zeng 2012

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