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rival and stock
Saccard's principal rival on the Bourse, the Jewish financier Gundermann, learns about Saccard's financial trickery and attacks, losing stock upon the market, devaluing its price, and forcing Saccard to buy millions of shares to keep the price up.
The team's low point came with demotion to Regionalliga Nord ( III ) for two years in 1996 – 98: the fact that the fall from the second league came during their anniversary year unfortunately made them a laughing stock among fans of rival teams for years to come.
However, in order to manufacture a sufficient supply of the electric recordings to satisfy anticipated demand and to allow dealers to liquidate their stock of acoustic recordings, Victor and its rival, Columbia, agreed to keep secret from the public, until the end of 1925, the fact that the recordings using this new process offered a vast improvement over the older acoustical recordings.
( Fisk was killed in January 1872 by a jealous rival over a mistress and Gould himself would later be swindled out of $ 1, 000, 000 worth of Erie railroad stock and never controlled the Erie Railroad ).
On June 13, 2011, a rival bid from the Maple Group of Canadian interests, was unveiled: a cash and stock bid of $ 3. 7 billion CAD, in hopes of blocking the LSE Group's takeover of TMX.
The motives for giving such aid are varied: nations of the same ethnic and / or religious stock may sympathize with oppressed groups, or a strong nation may attempt to destabilize a colony as a tactical move to weaken a rival or enemy colonizing power or to create space for its own sphere of influence ; examples of this include British support of the Haitian Revolution against France, and the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, in which the United States warned the European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the newly independent states of the Western Hemisphere.
Due to apparent moves by NASDAQ to acquire the London Stock Exchange, NYSE Group, owner of the New York Stock Exchange, offered € 8 billion ( US $ 10. 2b ) in cash and shares for Euronext on 22 May 2006, outbidding a rival offer for the European Stock exchange operator from Deutsche Börse, the German stock market.
This included the emergence of the NASDAQ as a rival to the New York Stock Exchange, a high rate of IPOs, the rise of Dot-com stocks over established firms, and the prevalent use of such tools as stock options.
With a combined 32 teams between the NHL and the rival World Hockey Association, the talent available to stock the new teams in Kansas City and Washington was stretched thin.
In 1995, the trust divested itself of any interest in pharmaceuticals by selling all remaining stock to Glaxo plc, the company's historic British rival, creating GlaxoWellcome plc.
It also planned to raise a fund on the Amsterdam stock exchange in 2006, but its rival, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. launched a $ 5 billion fund there that soaked up all demand for such funds, and Blackstone abandoned its project.
In the following centuries the town was at the center of bloody feuds between rival baronial families ( the Luna, of Aragonese origin, and the Perollo, of Norman stock ), which nearly halved its population.
In 1930, Zemurray sold his company, Cuyamel Fruit, to the rival United Fruit Company of Boston, Massachusetts, for $ 31. 5 million in stock, and retired.
On 23 April 2009 Portmeirion Pottery purchased their rival Royal Worcester and Spode brands, together with some of the stock, after they had been placed into administration the previous November.
To make matters worse, some of these rival distributors were purchasing stock from Pacific in order to push Pacific out of the market.
The company itself was founded as a joint stock company, similarly to its English rival that had been founded two years earlier, the English East India Company.
In 1900, Hammond began selling stock in the Missoulian to political rival Joseph M. Dixon who would later become a US Congressman, US Senator, and the state of Montana's seventh governor.
Cyrus W. Field had become a major figure behind the NY & NE by 1886 but after the state of Massachusetts refused to sell him the $ 3 million in stock it held ( instead disposing of the shares to a rival group because of concern about Field's close association with Jay Gould ) Field sold his holdings in the NY & NE.
Railroad operators, while not opposed to connecting lines, were opposed to the possibility of sharing rolling stock with rival companies.
Scientific progress can be regarded as a three-way contest between rival theories and a stock of valid evidence held in common.
The station changed hands once again in 1997, with 51 % of the stock being bought by Telefónica, which already owned Azul's rival Telefé.

rival and exchange
In exchange for such cooperation with the rival political side, Harley paid some of Defoe's outstanding debts, improving his financial situation considerably.
* In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, the raucous exchange of accusations and insults between rival Members, especially at Prime Minister's Questions, has become known as " Punch and Judy politics ".
Floriculture is a growth sector, and agricultural non-traditional exports now rival the mining industry in foreign exchange receipts.
And also Philippines has network wars in which the fans of the 2 major networks defend their favorite channel, or when the 2 major networks produce similar and rival programming, and example of this, is when an ABS-CBN fan tells an insult on GMA ( usually being called cheap ), and a GMA fan would answer and make another insult ( usually the answer is that ABS-CBN is mayabang, arrogant in English ), and an exchange of insults would occur, usually on social networking sites, especially Facebook.
Afterwards, he began negotiations with his rival, who finally abdicated in his favour in 1081 in exchange for extensive landholdings.
Jonathan offered the rival general a peace treaty and exchange of prisoners of war.
On 1 July 1532, he surrendered to his rival, King Frederick I of Denmark, in exchange for a promise of safe conduct.
It has been suggested that the BBC only continued to develop VERA as a bargaining tool, so it would be offered some of the first Ampex machines produced in unstated exchange for abandoning further work on a potential rival.
The model rival technique involves two trainers, one to give instructions, and one to model correct and incorrect responses and to act as the student's rival for the trainer's attention ; the model and trainer also exchange roles so that the student sees that the process is fully interactive.
Although it would be to his advantage to reach a deal on an exchange of preferences with the NFP, competition for support from Indian voters, particularly in the sugar cane growing areas, where FLP and NFP endorse rival unions, has made this very unlikely.
Historically, the main rival of the quantity theory was the real bills doctrine, which says that the issue of money does not raise prices, as long as the new money is issued in exchange for assets of sufficient value.
Each character also has a secret " rival " whom they can face during the course of the single-player mode after meeting certain requirements, in which then the rival will interrupt one of the player's regularly scheduled matches and exchange dialogue with the player's character.
Less than two weeks after the Blackstone IPO, in July 2007 rival private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, filed with the SEC In October 2009, KKR listed its shares on the Euronext exchange and anticipates a listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
When Reginald Calvert, manager of The Fortunes pop group, founded the rival pirate station Radio City, Smedley tried to persuade Calvert to amalgamate with Radio Caroline in exchange for a new transmitter.
A further complication for any would-be rival of KC is that in Hull the first 1 km of wire from the exchange has a cross-section of 0. 3 mm sq, as opposed to the standard 0. 5 mm sq, requiring a more expensive DSLAM in the telephone exchange for providing an ADSL service.
While driving a stolen Cadillac he plans to sell to his chop-shop contact, Vincent discovers via a cassette that in the trunk is a secret prototype fuel injector for jet, which is to be delivered to a rival industrialist in Houston, Texas in exchange for five million dollars.
According to legend, Mirza Ghalib ( his contemporary and also a rival ) offered Momin his entire diwan ( collection of poetry ) in exchange for a particular verse of Momin.
LIN wholly owned the station until 1997, when it sold 76 % of KXAS to NBC, in exchange for 24 % of KNSD in San Diego ( which NBC had recently purchased from New World Communications, who had also owned channel 5's rival KDFW until it and the other Fox affiliates owned by New World were sold to Fox ) and cash.
But Jeffrey's rescue had a price — in exchange she had to help him, by impersonating her old rival Cassie, who to Dinah's utter shock, was now married to an actual Prince, Richard Winslow, a dead-ringer for Jeffrey.

rival and future
The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.
* Russia was a prime mover in the establishment of the Balkan League and saw it as an essential tool in case of a future war against its rival, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
* One NIT Championship ( 1979 ) over rival Purdue ; and one Runner-up finish ( 1985 ) to a UCLA team featuring future member of the Indiana Pacers, Reggie Miller
* 626 – Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
For example, a defender of evolution may well accept that the current formulation of evolutionary theory is likely to be revised in the future, but she defends evolution because she believes current evolutionary theory is more likely than any current rival idea, such as Creationism.
Against Russia Selim was less fortunate, and the first encounter between the Ottoman Empire and her future northern rival gave presage of disaster to come.
Chaos descended on English cricket in the Australian summer of 1887 / 8, as Lillywhite, Shaw and Shrewsbury organised their customary tour, at the invitation of the Melbourne Cricket Club, while a rival tour, that of the future Lord Hawke, was invited by their Sydney counterparts.
Hideyoshi led troops in the Battle of Anegawa in 1570 in which Oda Nobunaga allied with future rival Tokugawa Ieyasu ( who would eventually displace Hideyoshi's son and rule Japan ) to lay siege to two fortresses of the Azai and Asakura clans.
In 1896, the Independent ceased doing business and Amos Kling wasted no time in financing and launching another rival paper, the Republican Transcript, in a failed attempt to derail his future son-in-law.
He also met Arthur Meighen, a future political rival ; the two men did not get on especially well from the start.
Hornby, who became a rival of Grace in future years ; and the Honourable George Harris, the future Lord Harris, who became a very close friend and a most useful ally.
The Reform Party and the United Party merged to become the National Party, and would be Labour's main rival in future years.
The Muscovite quite Pyrrhic victory over the Golden Horde, in a long term, signified, however, the beginning of a slow climb to power by the Grand Duchy of Moscow, thus within a century becoming the most serious future rival and threat to integrity, well-being and survival of Lithuania.
Elizabeth Woodville, future Queen of England as wife of her husband's rival King Edward IV, allegedly served as her Maid of Honour.
Clark sparred with future political rival Preston Manning in debate forums on campus between the Young PCs and the Youth League of the Alberta Social Credit Party.
Clark encountered another future rival when he met Brian Mulroney at a national Young PCs meeting in 1958.
The Steamwheelers are presently without a league due to the af2 ceasing operations, but are a candidate to join the new Arena Football 1 or the rival Indoor Football League in the future.
The combined organisation was named the National Party, and would be Labour's main rival in future years.
After suffering his first defeat against Olivares, Chacon won his next four bouts, then faced off against cross-town rival and future champion Danny Lopez. Chacon outboxed Lopez and stopped him in the ninth round.
Also at Oxford, Healey met future Conservative Prime Minister Teddy Heath ( as he was then known ), whom he succeeded as president of Balliol College Junior Common Room and who was to be a lifelong friend and political rival.
In one scene, a " scrier " ( or augur ) tries to read the future by disemboweling and examining the entrails of a professional rival.
A bright student who counted among his contemporaries in UCD his future political rival, Charles Haughey, who also knew Joan O ' Farrell ( the Liverpool-born daughter of a British army officer, Richard O ' Farrell ) a fellow student, whom FitzGerald married in 1947.
The 13th Letter, directed by his future nemesis and love rival Otto Preminger, was a remake of the 1943 French film Le Corbeau ( The Raven ), with the setting changed to the Canadian province of Quebec.

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