Spry and combative as ever, the 71-year-old media mogul on Monday rolled to a clear-cut election victory just two years after Romano Prodi had ousted him from the job by a whisker's .
The big break came recently with the discovery that small silicon diodes, working much like the cat's-whisker crystals of early radio sets, can pick microwave energy out of the air .
Symmetrical whisker dots may be a reliable clue -- at least in male lions.
FactSet Research Q3 Adj. Profit Meets View, But Revenues Miss Financial data provider FactSet Research Systems, Inc. reported Tuesday a profit for the third quarter that increased from last year, reflecting a revenue increase amid net client growth. Adjusted earnings per share matched analysts' expectations, while quarterly revenues missed their estimates by a whisker. The company also provided guidance for the fourth quarter, in line with Street view.
June 18, 2013 - RTT News
Israel debates branding settler price tag attacks 'terrorism' Frustrated at their inability to stem a spike in violence against West Bank Palestinians by Jewish settlers with so-called "price tag" attacks, over the weekend Israeli law enforcement authorities came within a whisker of getting permission to treat the attackers like terrorists.
June 17, 2013 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News
Cristiano Ronaldo in Times Online I came within a whisker of doing it,Ronaldo said. "Wenger is someone I respect a lot. He is very intelligent."
Nicolas Sarkozy in guardian.co.uk The world came within a whisker of catastrophe. We can't run the risk of it happening again,Sarkozy, a conservative, said in an address in the southern Mediterranean port city of Toulon.
Yoweri Museveni in Independent Online We Africans are at the mercy of the developed world who have super weapons that could eliminate us from the face of the world in a whisker of time, but instead of working hard to reduce the technological gap, we are just sitting back,Yoweri...