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Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway can recover from $1.7 billion in losses

By Josh Funk By Josh Funk April 30, 2011 Loaded in seconds

OMAHA — Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting Saturday was dominated by somber topics as CEO Warren Buffett explained to about 40,000 shareholders how the company had been battered by a trusted former employee’s misdeeds and a string of natural disasters.

Buffett assured the crowd at an Omaha convention center that Berkshire is strong enough to withstand both the David Sokol scandal and the estimated $1.7 billion in insurance losses that drove profits down 58 percent in the first quarter.

Buffett said he doesn’t think he will ever understand why Sokol bought stock in Lubrizol shortly before recommending that Berkshire buy the chemical company. Buffett said he believes Sokol clearly violated Berkshire’s ethics and insider trading policies.

“It’s a situation that’s sad for Berkshire and sad for Dave,” Buffett said.

Buffett acknowledged that he made a mistake by not asking Sokol more about his Lubrizol stock when they first discussed the company in January. Buffett said he had no reason to think Sokol had just bought the stock the week before.

Buffett previewed Berkshire’s earnings at the meeting, ahead of their scheduled release on Friday. He said the biggest factor in the earnings drop was about $1.7 billion in pretax losses related to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, Australian floods and the New Zealand earthquake.

“We had probably the second-worst quarter for the insurance industry in terms of disasters around the globe,” Buffett said.

Buffett estimates that Berkshire will report $1.5 billion in net income, down from $3.6 billion last year. He did not offer earnings-per-share figures.

Buffett and Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie Munger spent nearly six hours answering questions at the annual meeting.

One early question asking why Buffett wasn’t tougher on Sokol drew mild applause from the audience. Buffett has always promised to be ruthless with anyone who hurts Berkshire’s reputation.

Sokol denies any wrongdoing. Before his departure, Sokol had served as chairman of Berkshire’s MidAmerican Energy, NetJets and Johns Manville units.

Buffett, who has long advised Washington Post Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Donald Graham on the financial stewardship of the company, announced in January that he would step down from The Post board in May when his term as a director expires.


assistant: OMAHA — Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting Saturday was dominated by somber topics as Chief Executive Warren Buffett explained to about 40,000 shareholders how the company had been battered by a trus...
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assistant: С нашей помощью одно из ведущих розничноторговых коммерческих предприятий, работающее в индустрии быстрого питания, за двенадцать месяцев сократило свои ежегодные расходы на 85% и за двенадцать месяцев полностью окупило все инвестиции.
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user: cincinnati - cincinnati reds chief executive marge schott has been told to stay away from riverfront stadium by the national league for apparently violating terms of her suspension agreement .
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assistant: schott ordered to stay away from riverfront stadium
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assistant: Erst 1932 wurde Limone mit anderen Ortschaften direkt verbunden und wurde somit zu einem einfachen Ziel, dessen lange Isoaltionsperiode beendete.
user: Which football club has the record of longest winning streak in the world?
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We decided to try this restaurant out because we got a smokin' deal from Restaurants.com.  It was a Tuesday night so the place was pretty empty.  We were asked if we wanted to sit on the patio, which we declined because the Non-Smoking Patio is immediately adjacent to a smoking bar.  Um... smoke travels and so the patio was out.    We were seated in the 'dining' area.  The music was very loud, so the reviews that this was a good place for kids, not so much.  If you want to have a conversation, this is not the place to go.  Not to mention that considering the decor and the number of cowboy hats in the room, the hard rock/heavy metal was sharply out of place.  We were immediately greeted by our waitress who took our drink order.  She brought the drinks out fast and took our food order.  My husband and I both got the carnitas burrito and my in-laws got the chicken tortas.  The waitress promptly brought us some chips and salsa.  Which tasted horrible.  The chips were too thick and were bland.  Once the food arrived it looked good.  Which made the taste all the more disappointing.  While my pork was tender, it was bland.  The sauted peppers were completely raw and not cooked at all. The refried black beans were unseasoned and very bland as well.  The rice was 'eh'. Nothing special.  My in-laws said the tortas were very dry and had to ask for more sauce.  The bread for the torta was supposedly toasted, however there was no indication that it was actually toasted.   We ordered chicken strips for the kids which were decent, but considering they were dripping with oil, not too healthy. There was so much oil that the breading slid off the chicken.  Over all the meal was extremely disappointing. The service was prompt and our server was very nice but unfortunately we won't be returning.


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user: Premise: This puts the peak of ovulation at the full moon.

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user: @kirstiealley Oh.. I'm craving Iced Coffee bad  That would be super naughty though!

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user: Write a short summary for this text: egyptian president hosni mubarak met on thursday with visiting lebanese prime minister fouad seniora to discuss the latest developments in the middle east in the red sea resort of sharm el-sheikh .


assistant: mubarak lebanese pm discuss regional issues
user: La société produit également des alliages de magnésium moulés sous pression très résistants à la corrosion et des tiges d'anode filées utilisées dans des chauffe-eau.

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user: Write an article with the title: "Judge to Lindsay Lohan -- Sorry, But You DID Do Coke"


assistant: Lindsay Lohan just went down in flames in spectacular fashion, after a judge threw out her defamation lawsuit against Fox News Channel for claiming she and her mom did cocaine together.

Lindsay and mama Dina sued for comments made on FNC back in February 2014 when a guest said, "Lindsay Lohan's mom is doing cocaine with her." The guest also called Dina an enabler.

The judge in the case on Friday shut Lindsay down, saying, "Truth is a defense."

The judge also dismissed the case Dina filed, saying she's a public figure, the comment wasn't made maliciously. It probably didn't help that Lindsay once made a frantic call to her dad in the back of a limo, saying Dina was there and, "Mom's on cocaine."

One thing ... the judge threw out Lindsay and Dina's lawsuit against FNC and Sean Hannity. As for the guest who made the comment, it's unclear if her case was thrown out as well.
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Love cold stone!!! I dont visit this one often but the ladies helping were very nice and helpful and made my ice cream perfect :)


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user: Which is the best brand fo laptops?

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user: Näiden olisi oltava suuntaa-antavia periaatteitamme, ja näitä arvoja todellakin lupasitte puolustaa, hyvä Durão Barroso.

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assistant: Those should be our guiding principles and indeed those were the values that you promised to defend, Mr Durão Barroso.
user: Arvoisa puhemies, hyvät kollegat, parlamentissamme vallitsee yksimielisyys Keski- ja Itä-Euroopan maiden laajentumisesta ja YMP: n uudistamisen tarpeesta, ja sallinette minun korostaa Agenda 2000: ta koskevaa näkökulmaa.

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assistant: Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is a consensus within Parliament as regards the enlargement of the EU to include the CEECs and the need to reform the CAP, and I would like to look at this aspect of Agenda 2000.
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assistant: The service level of Hotel Zlatnik is super. The staff speaks very well English.
user: In the case of overseas contracts, and unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Seller, all payments shall be made by Irrevocable Letter of Credit confirmed by a London Clearing Bank and valid for shipment and negotiation as stipulated in any Order Acknowledgement.

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user: Translate "If we demand the attendance of Commissioners, surely it is right and proper that we demand the attendance of all parliamentarians in this House?" to Finnish?


assistant: Jos vaadimme komission jäsenten läsnäoloa, on varmasti oikeus ja kohtuus, että vaadimme kaikkien parlamentin jäsenten läsnäoloa parlamentissa.
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assistant: (CNN)A humpback whale has become tangled up in a synthetic line attached to a buoy off the coast of the island of Hawaii. Maritime officials are trying to find the right opportunity to unsnarl the roughly 45-foot-long mammal as it swims around the Big Island. "We want it to come back to an area that is safe. It is not too easy to detangle a 40 ton animal," said Edward Lyman, the Large Whale Entanglement Response Coordinator in Hawaii for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The humpback was first spotted Friday. It has since been sighted several times by people as it moves around the island counterclockwise, dragging the red buoy with it. "We know that these situations are not immediately life threatening, but the animal will eventually succumb to this if we don't rescue it," Lyman told CNN on Tuesday. Weather conditions and the whale's shifting location appear to have complicated the task. "We are standing by waiting for certain things to come together," Lyman said. Whales regularly get caught up in lines around the Hawaiian Islands. "In the past year, 13 large whales have been reported entangled in gear and we cut one free successfully maybe two," Lyman said. "The second one, we weren't sure because the line didn't shed away." He said the response network he runs manages to free on average two to four whales each year but doesn't always find them when they are reported. Rescuers refloat 66 pilot whales stranded in New Zealand.
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"Apart from drafting of better laws, implementation is especially important."


assistant: "Pe lângă elaborarea unor legi mai bune, implementarea este deosebit de importantă".
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Programmes were found to be especially vulnerable in sub-Saharan Africa, eastern and central Europe and the Caribbean.


assistant: Особенно уязвимыми оказались программы в странах Африки к югу от Сахары, в Восточной и Центральной Европе и в Карибском бассейне.
user: double-ended testing (required for true measurement and troubleshooting), predictive single-ended tests, service level monitoring and performance measurement.

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assistant: Für den Anwender bedeutet dies: kein Risiko - hohe Verlässlichkeit.
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bhutan will hold a final round of talks with indian rebels who attack targets in india 's northeast from base camps in bhutan , seeking to persuade the rebels to leave the himalayan kingdom or be forced out by the military , authorities said .


assistant: bhutan to hold final talks with rebels from india to ask them to leave or be forced out
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assistant: Sowohl für Schuldner als auch für Gläubiger sind die damit verbundenen Risiken und Kosten enorm.
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user: Premise: "(Well, why not?)" If this premise is true, what does that tell us about whether it entails the hypothesis "How come?"?


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user: What is the solution?

Solve -153*n + 169*n = -64 for n.


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user: What is the sentiment of the following tweet?
Tweet:So pissed, Now am hearing iPhone update dont come out till 6pm UK time 


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user: Which one do you think is compulsory, knowledge, experience or technology?
I had a terrible fight with my mother. She's really mad at me. Now, I realise that it was my fault after all. What should I do?

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Mr Pannella, I do not think that we are quite at the mercy of events.


assistant: Dle Pannella, nu cred că ne-am lăsat în voia întâmplării.
user: kirjallinen. - (EN) Tuomitsen Kiinan asevoimien tiibetiläisiin mielenosoittajiin kohdistamat tukahduttamistoimet.

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assistant: in writing. - I condemn the Chinese armed forces' repression of Tibetan protestors.
user: PACE lansează o rezoluţie pentru Bosnia şi Herţegovina care îi înfurie pe liderii RS

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assistant: PACE issues resolution on Bosnia and Herzegovina, angering RS leaders
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assistant: A group of aliens is playing chess.
user: European literature was widely studied.

Does it follow that "Learning of European literature was confined solely to European countries."?


assistant: no
user: If The risk estimates from the vast majority of the short-term studies include the effects of only one or two-day exposure to air pollution., can we conclude that "The pollution is extremely harmful and should not be breathed in."?


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user: Is the following review positive or negative?

Used to go here about 4 nights a week right after the gym. About a year ago, this place was great. Then it started to go downhill - fast. That says a lot about ownership not paying attention. The people they have hired over the last several months have the absolute worst attitudes. I even had one time a girl tried to tell me they were closed (early) and that they were out of chicken. The male working there told me they do have chicken and that girl was trying to go home early. Now they no longer give discount to gym members. Portion sizes are about half of what they used to be. Service is worse than the Shell station employees down the street. On top of all that - the last two times I went there to pick up a to go order, they were missing extra chicken we had paid for and gave us white rice instead of brown rice that we ordered. Sorry teriyaki boy owner, but you should have been paying better attention. $18 times 4 nights a week lost from us.


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user: An SUV slammed into a Cadillac, sending it through the front wall of a Kansas City day care center Tuesday, seriously injuring three children in the building, officials in the western Missouri city said. The three children and an adult -- identified by police as the driver of the SUV -- were taken to hospitals with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, city communications director Danny Rotert said. The crash left a gaping hole in the front of Christian Academy Child Care, where about 40 children were when the Cadillac punched through around 1 p.m. (2 p.m. CT), Kansas City police Capt. Tye Grant said. The driver of the Cadillac, which for a time trapped two children in the building, ran from the scene, Grant said. However, James Garrett, with the Kansas City Fire Department, later said that the Cadillac was unoccupied. It was parked, he said. The incident started, police say, with the SUV rear-ending the car outside the child care center on 27th Street in central Kansas City. The Cadillac was propelled into the gray one-story building, coming to rest inside, Grant said. Aerial video from CNN affiliate KMBC showed the SUV, its front crumpled, just outside the front of the building, along with a huge hole and debris scattered on the sidewalk. Workers on Tuesday afternoon were trying to shore up the front of the building to ensure it wouldn't collapse, Rotert said. They then planned to take the Cadillac out of the facility. Officials believed that all children have been accounted for, "but we are still searching," Grant said Tuesday afternoon. CNN's Janet DiGiacomo and Carma Hassan contributed to this report.

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assistant: NEW: Officials believed that all children have been accounted for. 3 children, 1 adult have serious but non-life-threatening injuries, official says. Police: Rear-ended vehicle smashed into daycare center in Kansas City, Missouri.
user: Sentence 1: That culture and those values, however, are not intrinsic to people of Chinese descent; they are transmitted--or not.

Sentence 2: More often than not, those Chinese values aren't transmitted to the next generation.
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assistant: Store valium at room temperature away from moisture, heat, and light.
user: First question: Which is the largest country?
Second question: Which are the largest countries in the world?
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assistant: yes
user: Das Problem ist jedoch, daß dies nur einen Teil des Zimmermann-Berichts bildet.

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assistant: The difficulty, however, is that this is only one of the aims stated in the Zimmermann report.
user: kopo® wertet das Holz auf und bietet Ihnen das Beste des Materials.

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assistant: Kopo® is committed to provide the best materialsThanks to a high level of expertise and control of the leading-edge industrial processes in the wood industry, we offer a wide range of solid woods, for interior and exterior façades in the construction Industry.
user: Deşi unele dintre măsurile luate de autorităţile bulgare în ultimii ani au ajutat la reducerea nivelului acestei economii, sporirea acestor măsuri rămâne un factor cheie în domeniul investiţiilor şi dezvoltării, a prevenit gruparea.

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assistant: Romanian
user: Write a sentence not in English.


assistant: Toisaalta tällä lähestymistavalla voidaan varmistaa useiden eri toimien toteuttaminen tehokkaasti EU:n tasolla.
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For this reason, I voted in favour of the report.


assistant: Din acest motiv, am votat în favoarea acestui raport.
user: Is it possible to conclude that "Two white women playing tennis in front of a large crowd." if "Two women are playing tennis at Wimbledon."?


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user: What are interesting facts about A R Rahman's album 'Vande Mataram'? Did Bharat Bala give any account on its video release?
What are some lesser known facts about A.R. Rahman?

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user: Noted author and social activist Howard Zinn died of a heart attack Wednesday while traveling, his daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn, said. Zinn, author of "A People's History of the United States," was 87. Kabat-Zinn said her father, who lived in Auburndale, Massachusetts," died while traveling in Santa Monica, California. "A People's History of the United States," first published in 1980, tells a history not often in seen in other books -- from the perspective of those not in a seat of power. The book was the inspiration for a 2009 documentary, narrated by Zinn, called "The People Speak." The film highlighted people who spoke up for social change, according to the Web site of the History Channel, which aired the program. Zinn was a shipyard worker and Air Force bombardier before he went to college under the GI Bill and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University, according to his Web site. He taught at numerous universities, including Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. Kabat-Zinn said of her father that he lived a "very full and exciting life" and that there were many social issues that were very important to him. Above all, she said, her father believed that there is no "just war." Zinn's death on the day of President Obama's first State of the Union address was underscored by his contribution to a recently released special from The Nation magazine called "Obama at One." "I've been searching hard for a highlight," he wrote. "The only thing that comes close is some of Obama's rhetoric; I don't see any kind of a highlight in his actions and policies." Zinn said he was not "terribly disappointed because I didn't expect that much," noting that he has been "a traditional Democratic president" on foreign policy -- "hardly any different from a Republican" -- and has been cautious in domestic policy. "On health care, for example, he starts out with a compromise, and when you start out with a compromise, you end with a compromise of a compromise, which is where we are now," Zinn said. Zinn also cautioned "that Obama is going to be a mediocre president -- which means, in our time, a dangerous president -- unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction."

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assistant: Noted author and social activist Howard Zinn died while traveling in California, daughter says. "People's History of the United States" tells American history from view of those not in power. Book inspired documentary, "The People Speak," which was narrated by Zinn. In article for The Nation, Zinn also cautioned "Obama is going to be a mediocre president"