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action and collapsed
In June 2012 the Accountancy & Actuarial Discipline Board concluded that no action should be taken against Ernst & Young or any individuals in connection with the auditing of the Wall Street firm before it collapsed in September 2008.
The combination substantially delayed effective governmental action, thereby substantially increasing the losses when the fraudulent Ponzi schemes finally collapsed and were exposed.
With the country paralysed, and with the leading generals of the army — with the exception of Ludendorff — having at the same time informed Lüttwitz that his position and action were entirely irregular and that he must resign in the interests of the country, the putsch collapsed ; Kapp and Lüttwitz, unable to govern, fled to Sweden.
The guns however, were often mounted in open emplacements and protected only by a parapet-both in order to keep a lower profile and also because experience with guns in closed casemates had seen them put out of action by rubble as their own casemates were collapsed around them.
The church tower collapsed in 1951, but has since been rebuilt ; the action to raise funds for the restoration included an open air play, which is still held every summer in the garden of the local notary.
As a result of the Kirghiz action, the Uyghur empire collapsed in 846.
It then collapsed, and was followed by disciplinary action against some of the instigators and also those participators in the strike who had been guilty of acts of violence and sabotage.
Because he was impetuous and wanted to be in the thick of the action, von Richthofen began flying around over the frontline in a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch as air-ground liaison collapsed.
These were the republican political magazine Hibernia, which ceased publishing in 1980 after a libel action, and the Sunday Tribune newspaper, which first collapsed financially in 1982.
It fills one with horror that cultured people are simply living from day to day at the expense of a universe which is collapsing and content themselves with the thought that we have not yet collapsed, fondly imagining that this can go on. The transition to peace-time conditions when millions of soldiers have lost the habit of work and are looking for homes and jobs and finding only ruins can only come about if we have as the basis of our action a moral, idealist conception which will seize men's minds and lift them above the material difficulties and if we can win the people over to this. To-day the bonds of morality have been torn away ; what is left is merely convention.
It has a reputation as one of the weakest unions, rarely organising industrial action but 2012 it won compensation worth up to a massive £ 67. 8 million for over 24, 000 former employees of Woolworth made redundant when the firm collapsed at the end of 2008.
But a move to Inter to link up with Mourinho collapsed when the Italian giants failed to follow up their initial interest, and Carvalho, who returned to action during the club's pre-season tour of the United States, was keen to put his troubles behind him.
Blaker Fortress saw action in 1718, when it was surrounded by the invading Swedish army, but the siege collapsed upon the death of Charles XII of Sweden in front of Fredriksten Fortress.
This alliance, however, collapsed in April 1989 after differences cropped up between the two parties, after Prime minister Benazir Bhutto ordered a military action that brutally failed.
A 1975 deal to sell the station to Donrey Media Group collapsed when the FCC deferred action on the deal due to regulatory issues surrounding the license renewal of Donrey's KORK-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada.
For a four week trial ( and all the preparatory work ) in the UK in 2005 he charged £ 800, 000 to represent the UK government in the largest class action in the UK, brought by 49, 500 private shareholders of the collapsed national railway infrastructure company Railtrack.

action and June
The United States Government shall have the right to terminate the financing of further sales under this Agreement of any commodity if it determines at any time after June 30, 1961, that such action is necessitated by the existence of an international emergency.
This covered, wooden bridge is so closely identified with the first action in the early morning of June 3, 1861, and with subsequent troop movements of both armies in the Philippi area that it has become a part and parcel of the war story.
# Bourgogne of Lusignan ( 1176 – 1180 or c. 1178 – c. 1210 ), married as his third wife Raymond VI of Toulouse 1193, repudiated and divorced 1194 or 1196 without issue, married Gauthier I de Montfaucon aka Walter of Montbéliard ( killed in action at the Battle of Satalia, June 20, 1212 ) 1197 or bef.
Knowing Marlborough's destination, Tallard and Villeroi met at Landau in Alsace on 13 June to rapidly construct an action plan to save Bavaria, but the rigidity of the French command system was such that any variations from the original plan had to be sanctioned by Versailles.
He sent Göring to Berlin on 29 June, to meet with Himmler and Heydrich to plan the action.
In June 1998 in Budapest, Polgár played an eight game match of " action " chess, which is 30 minutes for the entire game, against Anatoly Karpov.
A second council of war on 16 June 363 decided that the best course of action was to lead the army back to the safety of Roman borders, not through Mesopotamia, but northward to Corduene.
" In a June 13, 2009, article, New York Times columnist Frank Rich said of Voight's speech, in which Voight called to " bring an end to this false prophet Obama ," that: " This kind of rhetoric, with its pseudo-Scriptural call to action, is toxic.
Seven militia were wounded in action between 30 June and 1 July 1845.
Legal action by rival RCA kept commercial use of the system off the air until June 1951, and regular broadcasts only lasted a few months before manufacture of all color television sets was banned by the Office of Defense Mobilization ( ODM ) in October, ostensibly due to the Korean War.
This third action failed to obtain the required approval of a majority of the presbyteries by June, 2009.
The last big action against the RAF took place on 27 June 1993.
* June – Iraq disarmament crisis: As Iraq continues to refuse inspectors access to a number of sites, the U. S. fails in its attempt to build support for military action against Iraq in the UN Security Council.
* June 23 – Grutter v. Bollinger: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds affirmative action in university admissions.
He was mentioned in despatches for his action as a turret officer aboard the Collingwood during the Battle of Jutland ( 31 May – 1 June 1916 ), an indecisive engagement with the German navy that was the largest naval action of the war.
More recently, a Quinnipiac poll from June 2009 finds that 55 % of Americans feel that affirmative action should be discontinued, yet 55 % support affirmative action for disabled people.
Once on the Carse, the English army would be caught in a kind of natural vise, as the main action on 24 June showed, with waterways to the north, east, and south.
Since then, the game series has branched out to include action games, and has sold 50 million units as of 30 June 2012.
The battle, which occurred on June 25 and 26, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, was the most prominent action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.
Between 6 June and 14 August it had suffered 23, 019 killed in action, 198, 616 missing or taken prisoner and 67, 240 wounded.
The Corps had been reduced to approximately 6, 000 – 7, 000 men, 20 – 30 % of its original strength in the course of continuous action since late June including in the Falaise pocket ; losses in officers and NCOs had been especially high.
In June 1780 Amherst oversaw the British army as they suppressed the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London: after the outbreak of rioting Amherst deployed the small London garrison of Horse and Foot Guards as best as he could but was hindered by the reluctance of the civil magistrates to authorise decisive action against the rioters.

action and 1997
Telegames released a number of games in the second half of the 1990s, including a port of Raiden and a platformer called Fat Bobby in 1997, as well as an action sports game called Hyperdrome in 1999.
BRP games in Japanese are Houkago Kaiki Club ( 1997, school life and horror, Hobby Japan ), Genom Seed ( 2004, mutant action, Shinkigensha ) and Taitei no Ken RPG ( 2007, SciFi-jidaigeki, based on movie of the same title, Shinkigensha ).
Legal action by the Center for Biological Diversity led to federal listing of the cat on the endangered species list in 1997.
On August 30, 1997, Downey quit his WTAM radio talk show to focus on pursuing legal action against Howard Stern.
In April 1997, the government established an Independent Complaints Directorate to investigate deaths in police custody and deaths resulting from police action.
Since major fighting subsided in about 1997, the army has been engaged in refitting itself for the tasks of a conventional army, after more than a decade of anti-guerrilla action.
Its last major action resulted in the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis.
Fire Down Below is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá, starring Steven Seagal as an EPA agent who investigates a Kentucky mine and helps locals stand up for their rights ; co-starring Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton, and Stephen Lang, the film also includes cameos by country music performers Randy Travis, Mark Collie, Ed Bruce, Marty Stuart, and Travis Tritt, and country-rocker and The Band member Levon Helm.
) Its action takes place in the spring term of 1997 ( during the time of Tony Blair's landslide victory ).
The movie Men in Black, a popular 1997 science fiction thriller, required Agent J, played by Will Smith, to remove his ten fingerprints by putting his hands on a metal ball, an action deemed necessary by the MIB agency to remove the identity of its agents.
As a result of a High Court action, this additional payment was received shortly before Fields ' death from cancer in 1997.
Conspiracy Theory is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Richard Donner.
She also incurred some criticism from some of the Irish Catholic hierarchy by taking communion in an Anglican ( Church of Ireland ) Cathedral in Dublin on 7 December 1997, although 78 percent of Irish people approved of her action in a following opinion poll.
Gere also took a leading role in the 1997 action movie The Jackal, playing Declan Mulqueen.
1831 saw Phillpotts as the victim of the Guy Fawkes Night custom of burning effigies of clergymen ; knowing his reputation he took action by requesting protection, thus the 7th Yeomanry Cavalry filled the palace at Exeter, whilst the crowd in the cathedral yard burned Phillpotts in effigy ; ".... hollow turnip as head and candle as nose, clad in mitre and lawn sleeves ..." ( Chadwick I, 1997, p 29 )
The first Absolutely Incredible Kid Day, a call to action for all adults to communicate through letters their love and commitment to children, took place in 1997.
Other films have included the science fiction feature Gattaca ( 1997 ), the title role in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet ( 2000 ), the action thriller Assault on Precinct 13 ( 2005 ), and the crime drama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead ( 2007 ).
Ratner had directed several music videos and one film, the 1997 action comedy Money Talks, before reaching commercial success with the action-comedy Rush Hour ( 1998 ), starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, both of whom reunited with Ratner for two sequels, Rush Hour 2 ( 2001 ) and Rush Hour 3 ( 2007 ).
Sometimes, deep linking has led to legal action such as in the 1997 case of Ticketmaster versus Microsoft, where Microsoft deep-linked to Ticketmaster's site from its Sidewalk service.
In 1997 he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for this action.
* African-American collective action and crime with Kriss Drass ( 1997 )
In 1997, the international lawyer Kōnen Tsuchiya filed a class action suit against the Japanese government demanding reparations for the actions of Unit 731, using evidence filed by Rikkyo University professor Makoto Ueda.
The last batch to be created was in 1997, in which the cake became more abstract with both more advanced computer graphics used and more live action models and sequences.
The 1997 implementation of Proposition 209 — which banned the use of affirmative action by state agencies — reduced the ethnic diversity at the more selective UC campuses but further increased it at UCR.
In October 1999, Raytheon was the subject of a number of securities class action lawsuits alleging it had issued a series of materially false and misleading statements including overstating the company's 1997 and 1998 revenues, concealing cost overruns and inflating its financial results.

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