1. Merchant bank Warburg also lost ground, down 45p to 479p after a 44% slump in half-year profits to ￡51m.

2. S G Warburg was rumoured to be pushing the stock, citing an imminent takeover.

3. Warburg Pincus was not available for comment.

4. UBS Warburg now expects the "upfront" market, which starts in May when advertisers book advance ad spots on the TV networks for the new season in September, to be up 4% on last year.

5. When Paul Warburg, a renowned banker, spoke about a possible Wall Street collapse in 1929, he was accused of "sandbagging American prosperity".

6. Yet M.M. Warburg predicted GDP growth in Germany would more than halve next year, slipping to 0.8 percent from an estimated 1.9 percent in 2008, dragged down by weaker demand abroad.

7. Bausch & Lombs takeover agreement from Warburg Pincus allowed it to solicit other bids for 50 days.

8. Maury Harris, an economist at UBS Warburg, said that the Fed would want to keep some ammunition for the future, in case economic conditions worsened.

9. Warburg effect is that cancer cells exhibit an increased dependence on glycolytic pathway for ATP generation.

10. The stake was sold to a single buyer through Warburg Securities.

11. Orwell himself was always unsure of it. It was his publisher, Fred Warburg who suggested that Nineteen Eighty-Four was a more commercial title.

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12. The formal sessions of the conference were organized around papers delivered by Laughlin, Johnson, Bush, Warburg, and Conant.

13. Then, in 1966, the museum built the Frieda Schiff Warburg Memorial Sculpture Garden to display roughly 200 pieces of stone carving, terra cotta, and ironwork.

14. Competition for the Honda stake is still intense with several rival buyout funds, including Warburg Pincus, Bain and KKR, as well as sovereign wealth funds keen to get in on the deal, say bankers.

15. Aerobic and anaerobic degradability of Ethylenediaminetetraethylene acid(EDTA)were measured on Warburg respirometer and anaerobic batch reactors.