Other witnesses, after appearances before the jury, which reportedly is probing into possible income tax violations, disclosed that government prosecutors were attempting to connect Stein and his company with a number of gangsters, including Glimco and Alex.

While this agreement reportedly kept the company in existence, it also left RuneQuest moribund, leading to products of questionable quality, long gaps with no products published at all, and, eventually, the death of the game altogether.

Bogart's contract gave him the right to have his own production company, but Jack Warner was reportedly furious at this, fearing that other stars would do the same and major studios would lose their power.

" In 2010 the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported on their website that the film production company Zentropa is reportedly making more revenue from suing movie pirates in Germany that have downloaded Antichrist illegally than from box office and DVD sales, demanding a payment of around 1, 300 euros per download to avoid legal action.

Reactions to the manufacturer's decision to join the category were mixed, with the team reportedly receiving hate mail over their decision to part company with long-time supplier Holden.

On 19 December 1741 Vitus Bering died on the island, which was given the name Bering Island after him, near the Kamchatka Peninsula, reportedly from scurvy ( although this has been contested ), along with 28 men of his company.

At the time, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. asked ( words to the effect of ) How is it that this tiny company of 34 people — including the janitor — can be beating us when we have thousands of people ?, to which Cray reportedly quipped You just answered your own question.

He reportedly was not impressed by the first two, but was excited by the last one, and promptly integrated it, first into the Lisa and then in the Macintosh, attracting several key researchers to work in his company.

Sting was reportedly embarrassed when his publishing company insisted on a co-writing credit ( and royalties ) since his " I Want My MTV " line, was sung to exactly the same notes as the chorus of " Don't Stand So Close to Me ".

Others reportedly holding stock in the company were Dr. Harvey Knight, of Lowell, Mass., who later opened a sanitarium and hotel, C. A.

In 1909, Atlas petitioned county courts to change the alliance into a borough, reportedly because the change would make it easier for the company to send and receive mail.

The company has been accused of channel stuffing by franchisees, whose stores reportedly " received twice their regular shipments in the final weeks of a quarter so that headquarters could make its numbers ".

It reportedly cost Leitz more to manufacture than it recouped in sales, and motivated the company to collaborate with Minolta for their next series of electronic cameras.

On 28 February 2007, less than one week after reacquiring TVR, he reportedly announced plans to sell the company to Adam Burdette and Jean Michel Santacreu, who intended to export TVRs to the United States.

SNK saw little success on the video game market due to ( reportedly deliberate ) under-financing on Aruze's part, so the original founder, Eikichi Kawasaki left the company, along with other executives, to found the company named Playmore on August 1, 2001.

By the end of April 2005, Sir Richard Branson had reportedly expressed an interest in buying the remaining assets of the company for the purpose of reviving the marque in order to enter the hybrid automobile market, and several other parties were also rumoured as wishing to buy the remnants.

A third-party company would later introduce a work-alike LCD screen called the C-Vue, which looked and functioned very much like Apple ’ s product, albeit with a reportedly slight improvement in viewability.

A US Department of Defense investigation had reportedly found that the company had, " used a highly sensitive government computer network to collect competitive business information for its own use.

Shakur was reportedly in Federal Court on July 20, 2007, to file an injunction to prevent Death Row Records from selling any unreleased material from Tupac after the company failed to prove that the unreleased songs were not part of its bankruptcy settlement.

With the overall home-computer market in decline — even while IBM could not meet the demand for its new PC AT business microcomputer — and likely unable to make a sufficient profit when the PCjr was sufficiently discounted to increase sales, the company discontinued it in March 1985 and, reportedly with more than 100, 000 leftover PCjrs, sold them at a large discount to its employees.

In 2007, Antioco left the company, reportedly due to continued controversy over his compensation.

In late November 2008 Klaus reportedly had a meeting with Vagit Alekperov, head of the Russian oil company Lukoil.

As the AWA required talent to place a six-week notice upon leaving the company for booking and syndication-based reasons, most of the talent reportedly told Gagne that McMahon offered them more money to not work out their notices and previously-scheduled appearance dates, which has been disputed by McMahon today.

The gallant company completed Act 4, and got through part of Act 5.

In the essay section of his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess states that Orwell got the idea for Big Brother from advertising billboards for educational correspondence courses from a company called Bennett's, current during World War II.

Bogart resumed his friendship with boyhood pal Bill Brady, Jr. whose father had show business connections, and eventually Bogart got an office job working for William A. Brady Sr .' s new company World Films.

While working for the insurance company, Peel filed card programs for an early IBM 1410 computer ( which led to his entry in Who's Who noting him as a former computer programmer ), and he got his first radio job, albeit unpaid, working for WRR ( AM ) in Dallas.

Mullis returned to science at the encouragement of friend Thomas White, who later got Mullis a job with the biotechnology company Cetus Corporation of Emeryville, California.

The company got assistance from the Department of Homeland Security to develop the fertilizer ( Sulf-N 26 ) for commercial use.

Having killed Boniface and his company, the Frisian bandits ransacked their possessions and got drunk on the wine remaining among the provisions, and then started killing each other, arguing over the division of the booty.

On October 16, 2007, Raimi stated that: " I don't have any news on ' The Shadow ' at this time, except that the company that I have with Josh Donen, my producing partner, we've got the rights to ' The Shadow.

However, Tridgell got a trademark notice from the company " Syntax ", who sold a product named TotalNet Advanced Server and owned the trademark for " SMBserver ".

Waits was later quoted as jokingly saying the company got the name of the song wrong, thinking it was called " Innocent When You Scheme ".

The company experimented with cobranding, forming an alliance with Arby's ( which got its start in the Youngstown suburb of Boardman ) for cobranded locations.

In 2010, a spokesman for Robertson said that the company's arrangements — in which the Liberian government got a 10 percent equity interest in the company and Liberians could purchase at least 15 percent of the shares after the exploration period — were similar to many American companies doing business in Africa at the time.

He preferred the company of adults, which he got only from his family.

* 1989: Cellular mobile phone company Pacific Bangladesh Telephone Limited and Bangladesh Telecom got license.

Director Ida Lupino was a noted actress who began directing when Elmer Clifton got sick and couldn't finish the film he was directing for Filmways, the company started by Lupino and her husband Collier Young to make low-budget issue-oriented movies.

The original Viacom was renamed CBS Corporation and got the broadcasting elements, Paramount Television's production operations ( renamed CBS Paramount Television, now two separate arms, CBS Television Studios for production and CBS Television Distribution for syndicated program distribution ), Viacom Outdoor advertising ( renamed CBS Outdoor ), Showtime Networks, Simon & Schuster and Paramount Parks, which the company later sold, while the new Viacom kept Paramount Pictures, MTV Networks, BET Networks, and ( until it was sold off in 2007 ) Famous Music.

: combination of factors, including litigations against the record company and increasing animosity between Wilson and the rest of the band, meant that in May 1967 Wilson pulled the plug on the record ... Love had already dismissed " Good Vibrations " as " avant-garde shit " and objected to the way Wilson, Parks and a group of highly skilled session musicians were creating music way beyond his understanding ... By March 1967, the bad feeling got too much for Parks and, having no desire to break up The Beach Boys, he walked out.

He was one of a handful of survivors that got money settlements from the small national air company.

Here was a good sermon and much company, but I sleepy, and a little out of order, for my hat falling down through a hole underneath the pulpit, which, however, after sermon, by a stick, and the help of the clerke, I got up again, and then walked out of the church.

" Hill apparently spent a lot of money to take his company on location for these scenes, and I guess when he got back to Hollywood he couldn't bear to edit them out of the final version.

After his morning show on NBC got cancelled in October 1980 after only 18 weeks on the air, David Letterman was still held in sufficient regard by the network brass ( especially NBC president Fred Silverman ) that upon hearing the 33-year-old comedian is being courted by a syndication company, NBC gave him a $ 20, 000 per week deal to sit out a year and guest-host a few times on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.

When asked where he got the ideas for the architecture of the first microprocessor, Hoff related that Plessey, " a British tractor company ", had donated a minicomputer to Stanford, and he had " played with it some " while he was there.

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ' The Lotus Position ' or ' Padmasana '.

Columbia got electric street lights in 1900 and its first electric utility company in 1914.