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The decision was made to split Viacom into two companies, which in turn led to a dismantling of the Paramount Studio / Paramount TV infrastructure, with the current Paramount, consisting only of the movie studio, retaining only about one-quarter its former size under Dolgen and Lansing.
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Mr. Justice Taney's Dred Scott decision in 1857 was unpopular in the North, and soon became a dead letter.
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.
But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.
Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.
It was faced immediately with a showdown on the schools, an issue which was met squarely in conjunction with the governor with a decision not to risk abandoning public education.
Thus, a finding of conspiracy to restrain trade or attempt to monopolize was excluded from the Court's decision.
The recommendation of the Department -- as well as the decision of the appeal board -- was based entirely on the local board file, not on an FBI report.
The decision reached in 1938-39 was made after the accumulation of a large amount of data and thorough study thereof.
I was saved from making the decision as the phone rang, and the girls were upon me instantly.
Since the writer had established this democratic procedure in the beginning he had to go along with their decision -- after, of course, pointing out whether he thought their decision was a wise or an unwise one.
Although the government was probably prepared for elections by mid-1958, the first decision was no doubt made more difficult as party strife multiplied.
The decision was made in Zurich by Prince Boun Oum, Premier of the pro-Western royal Government ; ;
Berger's decision to sue for the full amount of the performance bond was questioned by Wagner in the morning press conference.
One of the first moves made after a cabinet decision was to request the United States to establish a full-fledged military assistance group instead of the current civilian body.
The Supreme Court decision in mid-1960 was in the case of a company making sewer pipe from clay which it mined.
Every decision was made quickly on sound grounds.
It was up to her to save Poor John, dear John, to undo the wrong she had done, but she trembled at the decision as at the brink of a cold stream.
He was a director of S. & M. and must have been in on the decision.
After the surprise was over, Linda was almost as pleased as anyone with John's good luck, though she agreed with Bobbie's decision some months later to move to Funk Furnaces.
decision and made
In seconds, Greg made his decision.
Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj.
Carl has been married to Paula for fifty-three years, and he has not made a single major decision without careful consideration and thorough discussion with his wife.
He made the decision with his eyes open, or so he thought.
If we have not thought and made a decision entirely in these terms, then we need to submit ourselves to the following `` simple test '': `` Have we decided how we are to kill the other members of our household in the event of our being less injured than they are ''??
The petition is made to a higher court for the purpose of overturning the lower court's decision.
Because of independence, the decision whether to use of the axiom of choice ( or its negation ) in a proof cannot be made by appeal to other axioms of set theory.
The decision must be made on other grounds.
After the decision was made to exclude the statuary of Mary and the archangels, Gaudi contemplated abandoning the project but was persuaded not to by a priest.
A corollary of this was that, at least in words spoken by the jurors, if a court had made an unjust decision, it must have been because it had been misled by a litigant.
The decision to target the Apollo 16 lunar landing for the highlands region of the Moon was made to obtain samples of the Descartes Formation and the Cayley Formation.
After losing 7 straight games, the decision was made to release head coach Dan Reeves.
During development, engineers had made the decision to use the Zilog 8530 serial controller chip ( SCC ) instead of the lower cost and more common UART to provide serial port connections.
On the basis of the Awb, citizens can oppose a decision (' besluit ') made by a public body (' bestuursorgaan ') within the administration and apply for judicial review in courts if unsuccessful.
Lord Sydney, often criticised as an ineffectual incompetent, had made one fundamental decision about the settlement that was to influence it from the start.
In solving a subsonic problem, one decision to be made by the aerodynamicist is whether to incorporate the effects of compressibility.
Athanasius ' first problem lay with the Meletians, who had failed to abide by the terms of the decision made at the First Council of Nicaea which had hoped to reunite them with the Church.
Paul Yandura, speaking for the White House gay and lesbian liaison office, said that Clinton's signing of DOMA " was a political decision that they made at the time of a re-election.
Digicel then issued court proceedings against the Regulator, arguing that he had acted improperly by imposing an arbitrary limit of three licenses ( although interestingly no complaint was made about the decision to prefer BVI Cable TV's improbable license over Digicel ).
On 26 August 1944, the Fatherland Front made the decision to incite an armed rebellion against the government, which led to the appointment of a new government on 2 September.
decision and split
* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.
A split decision indicates a disagreement between the judges, while a unanimous decision indicates that all judges saw the fight the same way and all have declared the same winner.
However, the party split in two over the decision in late 1978, with a new National Party forming and becoming independent, holding three seats in the Western Australian lower house, while the National Country Party remained in coalition and also held three seats.
A case decided by a multi-judge panel could result in a split decision.
After national discussion of dividing the country into a federation of three republics, Bohemia, Moravia-Silesia and Slovakia, Dubček oversaw the decision to split into two, the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
In 1845, the first football laws were written by Rugby School pupils ; other significant events in the early development of rugby include the Blackheath Club's decision to leave the Football Association in 1863 and the split between rugby union and rugby league in 1895.
One consequence of the court decision was that tiny Turtle Island just outside of Maumee Bay and originally treated as being wholly in Michigan, was split between the two states.
A resolution, to have the capital moved from Lewiston to Boise, was passed by the Idaho Territorial Legislature on December 7, 1864, six weeks before the territorial legislature's session legally began, and after litigation, on a split decision decided by one vote on the territorial supreme court on geographic lines.
It turned out that the Arthur Andersen board passed a resolution saying he had to resign if he didn't get at least an incremental US $ 4 billion ( either through negotiation or via the arbitrator decision ) for the consulting practice to split off, hence his quick resignation once the decision was announced.
During the years following, the decision to split pathology in to sub-specialties arose.
This limit was the reason for the decision to split the troop lift schedule into successive days.
After a year of deliberation the FCC finally approved the purchase by UPT in a 5 – 2 split decision on February 9, 1953.
The result was a fifteen-round split decision in Benitez's favor.
On January 14, 1979, Benitez won a fifteen-round split decision to become a world champion in a second weight division.
Instead, Randall knocked him down for the first time in his career and went on to win a split decision and Chávez lost the title to Randall.
The WBC ordered an immediate rematch and Chávez regained the title on a split technical decision in May 1994.
In a close fight, Chagaev prevailed, taking a split decision with scores of 117-111 and 116-112 for Chagaev, and 115-114 for Ruiz.
The result was initially declared a split decision win for Valuev.
Given a second title shot, this time by the WBA, Laporte met the also legendary World featherweight champion Eusebio Pedroza in 1982, losing a close and controversial split decision.
Becerra proved too experienced for the young Sánchez, the bout ended in a split decision defeat for Sánchez.
Leonard was announced as winner by split decision, which remains hotly disputed to this day.
Howard Davis Jr proved more of a challenge — he led Rosario on all scorecards with ten seconds remaining in the bout, but was dropped by Rosario and lost a split decision.
0.361 seconds.