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The Crisis

Published November 30, 2008, 1:57 pm, The Moscow Times

: Bad Time For Some, Others Cash In Investment banks are laying employees off by the hundreds, developers are freezing projects and oil firms are lining up to receive government aid. At some companies, however, business has never been better.

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