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        <title><![CDATA[Emily Thornton - Director of Research]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cerberus Agrees to Acquire DynCorp in $1 Billion Deal]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:04:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blackstone IPOs Show Barriers to Returning Fund Cash]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:14:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can KKR Make Like Berkshire Hathaway?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bankruptcies: 2009 Is Already One for the Record Books]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Things are looking up for Cerberus Capital Management]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Toys 'R' Us Gets Wound Up Again]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Six Sigma Makes a Comeback]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cerberus Is Now Hunting Smaller Prey]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Despite dismal returns from his foray into Chrysler, humbled founder Feinberg intends to keep scavengingbut among lesser-known troubled companies
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Drug, Biotech Research Spending Hangs Tough]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:43:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Issue: More Effective Pharmaceutical Research]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:26:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Corporate Cash: Big Stockpiles for Tough Times]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:01:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Laid-off Workers Want Their Severance]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[More companies are cutting back onor cutting outseverance pay and benefits. But workers are fighting back, and new laws are on their side]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A New Sign That The Government Bailout Isn't Working]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Private Equity Triage: If you don't like what a private equity firm did to your company, buy it back.]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2009-02-11/private-equity-triage-if-you-dont-like-what-a-private-equity-firm-did-to-your-company-buy-it-back-dot</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[M&A Advice for the Brave]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Managing Through a Crisis: The New Rules]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In times of turmoil, opportunities abound. All managers must do is keep their companies afloat, their eyes peeled for openings, and their bearingsas the old rules wash away]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2009-01-07/managing-through-a-crisis-the-new-rules</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tribune Bankruptcy Snares Employees]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Real estate mogul Sam Zell built a complicated deal to take over Tribune Co., putting little of his own money at risk]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Private Equity Strangled Mervyns]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Cerberus, Sun Capital, and Lubert-Adler stripped the 59-year-old retailer of its assets and threw 30,000 people out of work]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tips for Making Better Hires]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Bad hires can cost plenty. A new book proposes four deliberate steps to hiring the right person for your company's needs and culture]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Canadian National Railway's Timely Profits]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[CEO Hunter Harrison went against traditional freight train practice and successfully implemented a precise schedule of shipments]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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