Since its inception, the firm has completed over $ 400 billion of private equity transactions and was a pioneer in the leveraged buyout industry.

Since its founding, KKR has completed a number of landmark transactions including the 1989 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, which was the largest buyout in history to that point, as well as the 2007 buyout of TXU, which is currently the largest buyout completed to date.

Since the initial buyout, 2 additional D & W locations have been re-branded to the Family Fare banner, the Grandville location in 2010 and the Rockford location in 2012.

Since that retirement, he has served as chairman and CEO of Harry Gray Associates, which participated with Shawmut National Venture in the 1993 buyout of Mott Metallurgical Corporation.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Since 1957, more and more trans-Atlantic passengers have been crossing by air.

Since the work is done by hand, the only limitation, it is said, `` is that of human conception ''.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

Since faculty see themselves as self-employed professionals rather than as employees, enthusiasm in a common enterprise is proportionate to the sense of ownership they have in it by virtue of sharing in the decisions that govern its course.

Since he can neither accept nor reject them all, he must be governed by the time and energy available for his prime professional obligations.

Since emotional reactions in the higher vertebrates depend on individual experience and are aroused in man, in addition, by complex symbols, one would expect that the hypothalamus could be excited from the cortex.

Since electrical stimulation of the posterior hypothalamus produces the effects of wakefulness while stimulation of the anterior hypothalamus induces sleep, it may be said that the reactivity of the whole organism is altered by a change in the autonomic reactivity of the hypothalamus.

Since the choice is by lot each week, the outcomes of different trials are independent.

Since the complicated process of establishing new communes and reviewing the rudimentary plan left by the French did not even begin until the fall of 1957, this goal appears somewhat ambitious.

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

Since I have already discussed his moral position, that discussion is incorporated by reference into the following pages, which will focus on the empirical and analytic side of Fromm's treatment.

Since a gentleman must, if possible, avoid sullying them by work, his hands, as importantly as his accent, become the index of social status.

Since the load L, under actual cutting conditions is caused by Af, it can be seen that Af

Since by the principle of optimality the remaining stages use an optimal Af-stage policy with respect to Af, we may enter section Af of the table at this state Af and read off the optimal policy for stage Af and the resulting state Af.

Since the railroad cannot reduce the salary of individual union members under contract, it must accomplish its payroll reduction by placing some of the men on furlough, a B. & O. spokesman said.

Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.

Since apurva is non-sentient, it cannot act unless moved by an intelligent being such as a god.

Since is the distance from a given number to the mean, one way to interpret this property is as saying that the numbers to the left of the mean are balanced by the numbers to the right of the mean.

Since the randomization-based analysis is complicated and is closely approximated by the approach using a normal linear model, most teachers emphasize the normal linear model approach.

Since the 1951 general election, the party system has been dominated by the personalist Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), dominated by the Bird family, particularly Prime Ministers Vere and Lester Bird.

Since 2001, the economic activity in the country is regulated by the Ministry of Economic Development of Azerbaijan Republic.

Since Everquest's release, Sony Online Entertainment has added several EverQuest-related games.

Since then, over 1, 400 movies have been mixed in Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, and as of early 1999 over 6, 750 movie theaters were equipped with SDDS.

Since then, Sony has also used lock-in as a business tool in many other applications, and has a long history of engineering proprietary solutions to enforce lock-in.

Since 2010 new products of Sony ( previously only using Memory Stick ) and Olympus ( previously only using XD-Card ) are offered with an additional SD-Card slot.

Since early 2009, Sony Music Entertainment became the sole distributor of Jive because of its purchase of BMG's stake in the 2004 – 2008 venture between the two companies.

Since 2004, however, Sony seemingly began rolling back its support for the Aiwa brand, and by 2005 Aiwa products remained on sale in only selected territories around the globe.

Since then, it has been ported to and / or implemented on over 30 platforms, including POSIX, the Dreamcast, Palm OS, TI 99 / 4A, the Z-machine, the Sony PSP and many more.

Since the film was released and US / Canada theatrical and TV rights were acquired by Miramax Films before the acquisition by The Walt Disney Company, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, who financed the film through a pre-buy holds the rights to release it on home media ( e. g. DVD or Blu-ray Disc ) in the US.

Since 1997, Kutaragi had been favoured to become the next Sony president.

Since 2011, Universal Music Group replaced Sony Music Entertainment is the general record company associated and affiliated with the Idols format in most countries.

Since early 2009, Sony Music Entertainment distributes Volcano products worldwide.

Since the various PlayStation BIOS images are copyrighted by Sony, it is illegal to distribute them.

Since moving from the TOP TEN label the group had suffered from problems such as the scandal of Brandes buying their singles in bulk to boost chart positions, with the label also suffering problems ( such as being ' booted out ' of the Sony BMG Music Entertainment group ).

Since heading up Sony Computer Entertainment America, Kazuo Hirai has been instrumental in Sony's success.

Since June 2005, he had been chairman and CEO of Sony overseeing the entire businesses of Sony, including its media and electronics subsidiaries such as the Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Financial Holdings.

Since then he has worked with Iannucci on Gash ( Channel 4, 2003 ), Time Trumpet ( BBC2, 2006 ), and in 2006 Holmes received his sixth Sony Award for his work on Radio 4's Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive.

Since June 21, 2007, SPHE now handles its former Sony BMG kids label, Sony Wonder.