The successful American businessman and investor Warren Buffett was quoted in the Associated Press ( January 20, 2006 ) as saying " The U. S trade deficit is a bigger threat to the domestic economy than either the federal budget deficit or consumer debt and could lead to political turmoil ...

Warren Buffett, in a 2006 letter to the magazine publication of the Museum of American Finance asserted that the Graham-Newman partnership of the 1920s was the first hedge fund he was aware of, but suggested others may have preceded it.

Buffett wrote the soundtrack for, co-produced and played a role in the 2006 film Hoot, directed by Wil Shriner and based on the book by Carl Hiaasen, which focuses on issues important to Buffett, such as conservation.

On October 6, 2006, it was reported that Buffett had been detained by French custom officials in Saint Tropez for allegedly carrying over 100 pills of ecstasy.

" In the company of his longtime friend Jimmy Buffett, Bradley died on November 9, 2006 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan of complications from lymphocytic leukemia.

Claman first interviewed Buffett in November 2006 when she was at CNBC.

PNC Park has also hosted various concerts, including The Rolling Stones and Pearl Jam in 2005, Jimmy Buffett and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes in 2006 and Dave Matthews Band with opening act, Zac Brown Band, on July 10, 2010.

His intention was originally to leave 99 % of his estate to the Buffett Foundation, but in June 2006 he announced that he would give 85 % of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation instead.

In 2006, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates played bridge together at Borsheims.

Landreth has recorded with Jimmy Buffett, and accompanied him on his 2006, 2007 and 2010 summer tours.

In June 2006, he was awarded with the Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership, on July 19 in Portland, Oregon in recognition of his longstanding engagement for the political, cultural and environmental advancement of the Haida nation .< ref >

In late 2006, Jimmy Buffett announced on the website that the Margaritaville Cafes will no longer purchase or serve Canadian seafood products.

This is part of the creative futures plan, launched in 2006, to bring all BBC News output under the single brand name.

The Institute launched the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech in 2006, the Keck Institute for Space Studies in 2008, and is also the current home for the Einstein Papers Project.

In 2006 CND launched a campaign against nuclear power.

London Docklands also now boasts its own free newspaper, The Docklands, launched in 2006 by Archant London, following the purchase of Docklands News, the ex LDDC newspaper which was then owned by Ivy Communications.

* 2006 – American spy satellite USA-193 is launched.

COROT ( launched December 2006 ) and Kepler ( launched March 2009 ) are the two currently active space missions dedicated to searching for extrasolar planets.

Following Adam Ramanauskas ' personal battle with cancer, a ' Clash for Cancer ' match against Melbourne was launched in 2006.

Ohloh, a web service founded in 2004 and launched in 2006, monitors the development activity in the free software community, providing detailed metrics and quantitative analyses on the growth and popularity of projects and programming languages.

ADSL services were launched in Stanley in mid 2006.

In January 2006, ERT launched Digital Terrestrial Television with 3 channels.

Banks launched Mullan's book in Dublin, Derry and at the Britannia Stadium in Stoke in the Summer of 2006 and has described Mullan as ' my greatest fan '.

In 2005 the Irish Government launched Transport 21, a plan envisaging the investment of € 34 billion in transport infrastructure from 2006 until 2015.

After the campaign appeared in the Metro newspaper London the business news website www. mad. co. uk remarked that the IKEA campaign had amazing similarities with the marketing activity of UK home refurbishment company Onis living who had launched their own Not For Sale advertising campaign two years prior and was awarded the Interbuild 2006 Construction Marketing Award for best campaign under £ 25, 000.

* 2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.

* 2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.

On 14 March 2006, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Bringing Home the Goods, raiding a Jericho prison to capture PFLP general secretary, Ahmad Sa ' adat and five other prisoners charged with assassinating Israeli tourist minister Rehavam Zeevi who were about to be released.

In October 2006 the SuperJanet5 project was launched after £ 29 million of investment.

On January 19, 2006, the first spacecraft mission to explore the Kuiper belt, New Horizons, was launched.

In 2006, President Hockfield launched the MIT Energy Research Council to investigate the interdisciplinary challenges posed by increasing global energy consumption.

In 2006, Fraser launched a " scathing attack " on the Howard Liberal government, attacking their policies on areas such as refugees, terrorism and civil liberties, and that " if Australia continues to follow United States policies, it runs the risk of being embroiled in the conflict in Iraq for decades, and a fear of Islam in the Australian community will take years to eradicate ".

The second generation MX-5 ( NB ) was launched in 1998 and the current ( NC ) model has been in production since 2006.

A Canadian and U. S. led operation ( supported by British and Dutch forces ), Operation Mountain Thrust was launched in May 2006 to counter renewed Taliban insurgency.

Aside from appearing in numerous radio and television commercials in the St. Louis area since retiring from baseball, Smith authored a children's book in 2006 and launched his own brand of salad dressing in 2008.

In May 2006, Rostelecom launched a new fiber-optic data transmission line linking Russia's Far Eastern cities of Belogorsk and Blagoveshchensk with the Chinese city of Heihe on the Chinese-Russian border.

As of 2006, about 65 % of the North American industry belongs to the Ocean Spray cooperative.

In the fiscal year 2006 USDA Budget, $ 1. 033 billion went to research and cooperative extension activities nationwide.

The company, which had been organized as a cooperative of banks, had an initial public offering on May 25, 2006 at 39. 00 USD.

More recently, Reclamation sponsored a small cooperative research program with six Western states called the Weather Damage Modification Program, from 2002 – 2006.

Dungeon Siege supports multiplayer cooperative gaming over LANs and the Internet ( direct TCP / IP connection, and previously ZoneMatch, which was shut down in June, 2006 ).

Despite its problems, the cooperative has grown, opening major processing plants in San Juan del Río, Querétaro in 1992, one in Tizayuca, Hidalgo in 2003 and another in Culiacán, Sinaloa in 2006.

In July 2006, the cooperative signed a 25-year single-serve ( machine-dispensed ) juice distribution deal with Pepsi.

Reports of less social behavior compared to other groups are over-stated and credible accounts of cooperative breeding ( Ligon and Husar 1974 ) and large flock sizes ( Bhagabati and Horvath 2006 ) exist.

* Reverend Bernard M. Broderick ........... 1975-1982 died 2006, active until close to the end ; worked in the cooperative movement when younger.

Due to the unusual joint cooperative nature of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District, until 2005, Saratoga High School shared Los Gatos High School's Prentiss Brown Auditorium for performing arts and, until 2006, they shared Helm Field for football games.

The cooperative also produces fruit snacks, introduced in 2006.

The shellfish cooperative, Malcolm Island Shellfish Coop ( MISC ), was involved in research on the feasibility of raising and selling abalone, but closed for financial reasons in 2006.

Following criticism for lagging behind in the establishment of a cooperative ATM network, the bank is scheduled to enter into an agreement with two other convenience store operators within the prefecture in March, 2006.