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Breakingviews.com: Blank Checks Firing Blanks

Jul. 21, 2009
Deals involving special-purpose acquisition corporations that sat on cash and safe investments outperformed those that did deals.
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Veterans etch the names of their friends inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War on May 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. UPI/Pat Benic