The Washington state supreme court ruled that the state's occupation tax applied to sales, made at cost to an oil company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set up to purchase certain supplies without divulging the identity of the parent.

In May 2009 Infogrames Entertainment, SA, the parent company of Atari Inc. and Atari Interactive Inc., announced it would be changing Infogrames ' name to Atari, SA.

Digicel commenced separate proceedings against Cable and Wireless ( as bmobile's parent company ) in the English courts, claiming that Cable & Wireless has unfairly stifled competition in several Caribbean jurisdictions.

PolyGram ( London Records ' parent company at that time ) had pressed a number of promo singles and 12 " versions of the song, sending them out to both radio and record stores in the UK.

BSC later arranged an exchange deal with Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd ( GKN ), the parent company of GKN Steel, under which BSC acquired Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil and GKN took over BSC's Brymbo Steelworks near Wrexham.

Notice of closure attached to the door of a computer store the day after its parent company declared " bankruptcy " ( strictly, put into administration — see text ) in the United Kingdom.

O ' Daniel had parlayed the show's popularity into growing power within Light Crust Flour's parent company, Burrus Mill and Elevator Company and wound up as General Manager, though he despised what he considered " hillbilly music.

* Diageo – parent company

Apart from the head office building and the R & D building of Capcom Co., Ltd., both located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, the Japanese parent company also has a branch office in the Shinjuku Mitsui Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Many thousands of the station's fans marched in the streets and on Parliament Hill against the decision, and the parent company of CHOI, Genex Corp., appealed the CRTC decision unsuccessfully to the Federal Court of Canada.

On 4 November 2008 Cessna's parent company, Textron, indicated that Citation production would be reduced from the original 2009 target of 535 " due to continued softening in the global economic environment " and that this would result in an undetermined number of lay-offs at Cessna.

Cessna's parent company Textron posted a loss of US $ 8M in the first quarter of 2010, largely driven by continuing low sales at Cessna, which were down 44 %.

On 7 April 2005 Mandrakesoft announced the decision to change the name of the parent company to Mandriva and their distribution name to Mandriva Linux, although the Brazilian operation would not change its name from Conectiva immediately.

It is the parent company to Ameridance and Eastern Cheer and Dance Association.

Columbus has been home to many manufacturing companies, including Noblitt-Sparks Industries ( which built radios under the Arvin brand in the 1930s ) and Arvin Industries, now Meritor, Inc. After merging with Meritor Automotive on July 10, 2000, the headquarters of the newly created ArvinMeritor Industries was established in Troy, Michigan, the home of parent company, Rockwell International.

Commodore UK was the only subsidiary to survive the bankruptcy and even placed a bid to buy out the rest of the operation, or at least the former parent company.

Casablanca Records had been releasing fewer records in the 1980s, and was shut down in 1986 by parent company PolyGram.

The theater company and Viacom / CBS Corporation parent National Amusements is based in Dedham.

* 2011: Quidsi. com, parent company of Diapers. com, acquired by Amazon. com for $ 500 million in cash plus $ 45 million in debt and other obligations.

The Esso name was a trademark of Jersey Standard Oil, and attracted protests from other Standard Oil spinoffs because of its similarity to the name of the parent company, Standard Oil.

* Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and several other car-rental agencies

Other entries during this era included Fanball. com, launched in 1999 by the parent company of Fantasy Football Weekly.

RotoNews. com's parent company, Broadband Sports, went belly up in 2001.

The issue came to a head with the lawsuit of Major League Baseball Advanced Media ( MLBAM ), MLB's Internet company, vs. St. Louis-based CBC Distribution and Marketing Inc., the parent company of CDM Sports.

Mainly these were concerned with the possibility of the death of one parent and the complication of living with the survivor afterward, but the possible death of one's own spouse was not overlooked.

An interview schedule of open-ended questions and a multiple-choice questionnaire were prepared, and one parent of each of the sample children was seen in the home.

The parent was asked to describe the child's typical behavior in certain standard situations in which there was an opportunity to observe tendencies toward perfectionism in demands upon self and others, irrational conformity to rules, orderliness, punctuality, and need for certainty.

Dealing with issues of poverty and parent – child separation, The Kid is thought to be influenced by Chaplin's own childhood and was the first film to combine comedy and drama.

The service was discontinued in conjunction with the retirement of the parent AMPS service ; it has been functionally replaced by faster services such as 1xRTT, EV-DO, and UMTS / HSPA.

The implementations differ: Microsoft Word was one of the first applications to only show sub-entries of some menu entries after clicking an arrow icon on the context menu, otherwise executing an action associated with the parent entry.

* Clone — In biology and agriculture, any organism whose genetic information is identical to that of a parent organism from which it was created ; natural reproductive processes producing clones include parthenogenesis and apomixis

The experimental horse platoon was so successful that its entire parent battalion was transformed from an armored reconnaissance unit to a three squadron horse battalion known as the " Dragoons of Angola ".

Although William was a distant parent, he shared his love of music, especially the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, with his children.

Fine Gael was founded on 8 September 1933 following the merger of its parent party Cumann na nGaedheal, the National Centre Party and the National Guard, popularly known as the " Blueshirts " ( a name still used colloquially to refer to the party ).

There are clearly many similarities between the two: both had flying cloaks of falcon feathers and engaged in shape-shifting, Frigg was married to Odin while Freyja was married to Óðr, both had special necklaces, both had a personification of the Earth as a parent, both were called upon for assistance in childbirth, etc.

GNC Networks was renamed Gibconnect and the parent company became Gibraltar Telecommunications International Limited, which is referred to as Gibtelecom, in 2002.

Essexites represent gabbros whose parent magma was under-saturated with silica, resulting in the formation of the feldspathoid mineral nepheline.

Darwin's primary approach to heredity was to outline how it appeared to work ( noticing that traits that were not expressed explicitly in the parent at the time of reproduction could be inherited, that certain traits could be sex-linked, etc.

Well-situated in the central river system of Russia and surrounded by protective forests and marshes, Moscow was at first only a vassal of Vladimir, but soon it absorbed its parent state.

( Great-grandchildren and even more distant descendants of Irish immigrants may also register as Irish citizens, but only if the parent through whom they claim descent was registered as a citizen before the descendant in question was born.

On June 28, 1977, in the Philadelphia Federal District Court, a lawsuit was filed by the Norlin Corporation, the parent company of Gibson Guitars against Elger / Hoshino U. S. A .' s use of the Gibson headstock design and logo.