The deal also allowed Nova and British Gas to sell their stake in Dynegy.

The bankruptcy filing did not, however, affect GasCo, CoalCo, or the " stub group ", and allowed the Dynegy Holdings bankruptcy to proceed.

The ISC was allowed to devolve its assets into RACA as a subsidiary company, ISC Holdings Pty Ltd.

In October 2006, the Australian federal government allowed Transfield Holdings to sell their 50 % shareholding in ADI to the Thales Group's Australian holdings, the Australian branch of the French military engineering firm.

On 1 January 2002, the government allowed Singapore Press Holdings ( SPH ) to offer competition in the television market, and SPH MediaWorks soon launched two channels, Channel U ( Mandarin ) and Channel i ( English ).

In an effort to inject competition into the Singaporean television broadcasting industry, the government allowed Singapore Press Holdings ( SPH ) to operate television stations, which resulted in the establishment of SPH MediaWorks.

This transfer allowed Antofagasta Holdings to concentrate on the development of the Pelambres and the Tesoro mines and establish itself as a low cost copper producer.

AECT was the sole owner of Vector until 2005, when it allowed Vector to make a public float of 24. 9 % of its shares to raise capital to buy gas company NGC Holdings.

Community Memory allowed the user to type messages into a terminal after inserting a coin, and offered a " pure " bulletin board experience with public messages only ( no email or other features ).

The Germans allowed the freighter's crew and passengers to board lifeboats, and prepared to sink the freighter with the U-boat's deck gun.

The board of trustees offered to turn Throop over to the state, but the presidents of Stanford University and the University of California successfully lobbied to defeat the bill, which allowed Throop to develop as the only scientific research-oriented education institute in southern California, public or private, until the onset of the World War II necessitated the broader development of research-based science education.

This allowed a new device to be added easily, generally only requiring plugging a hardware interface board into the backplane, and then installing software that read and wrote to the mapped memory to control it.

This boarding-bridge allowed the Roman navy to circumvent some of Carthage's naval skills by using their marines to board Carthaginian ships and fight in hand to hand combat.

Even qualified international or out of state doctors are not allowed to practice without acceptance to by the local medical guild ( Medical board ).

The board game Diplomacy recognises the Kiel Canal by allowing fleets to enter the region of Kiel from the west and exit to the east ( or vice versa ), which is not allowed in most of the game's other two-coast regions, such as Spain.

Leet originated within bulletin board systems ( BBS ) in the 1980s, where having " elite " status on a BBS allowed a user access to file folders, games, and special chat rooms.

The processor allowed the board to be configured to perform various audio tasks, such as MPU-401 MIDI synthesis or MT-32 emulation, without the use of a TSR program.

Hook commented that the only positive thing to come out of the Movement sessions was that producer Martin Hannett had showed the band how to use a mixing board, which allowed them to produce records by themselves from then on.

The compromise, based on the Aldrich Plan but sponsored by Democratic Congressmen Carter Glass and Robert Owen, allowed the private banks to control the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks, but appeased the agrarians by placing controlling interest in the System in a central board appointed by the president with Senate approval.

Bevelled edges and a convex, polyurethane varnished bottom to the board, allowed quick downhill movement, but limited turning ability.

If, in addition to treating the queens as identical, rotations and reflections of the board were allowed, we would have only 12 distinct solutions up to symmetry, signifying that two arrangements that are symmetrical to each other are considered equivalent.

Accompanied by a more efficient blade recovery system and the eventual removal of the tilting board ( or bascule ) this allowed a quicker turn-around time between executions, the condemned being decapitated either face-up or face-down, depending on how the executioner predicted they would react to the sight of the machine.

Enough fuel remained on board at the end of the flight to have allowed the balloon to fly four to five times as far.

The Pirates do not plunder their targets due to limitations in the game ; the player, however, is allowed to board ships, and may from there steal money, cargo, fuel, or ammunition, or attempt to capture the ship for use as their own or as an escort.

The Coast Guard allowed a detachment of KGB agents to board the cutter, and subsequently arrest Kudirka, taking him back to the former Soviet Union.

After many diplomatic manoeuvres, the British government decides that Jérôme is of no political importance after all, and he is allowed to return to France while Elizabeth is sent on board an American ship.

The Cochise County sheriff's position was worth more than $ 40, 000 a year ( about $ today ) because the office holder was also county assessor and tax collector, and the board of supervisors allowed him to keep ten percent of the amounts paid.

Furthermore, Network Ranking also allowed players to upload their scores from the playable arcade games found in Shenmue and to compete in the worldwide rankings board.

He was not allowed on board.

However, Architect Doozer understood her plight, as he himself was once in her shoes, and allowed her to " take the drawing board " rather than the helmet.

These more " progressive " school board members then allowed " pupil placement " of selected black students into Falls Church schools as allowed by Virginia's 1959 " freedom of choice " law.

Meiko also produced a SPARC processor board, the MK083, which allowed the integration of the SunOS operating system into the Computing Surface architecture, similarly to the In-Sun Computing Surface.

The New German Cinema also allowed for female directors to come to the fore and for the development of a feminist cinema which encompassed the works of directors such as Margarethe von Trotta, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Helke Sander and Cristina Perincioli.

Sometimes dismissed as low-quality escapist fare, the Peplums allowed newer directors such as Sergio Leone and Mario Bava, a means of breaking into the film industry.

Stuyvesant's decision was rescinded after pressure from the directors of the Dutch West India Company ; as a result, Stuyvesant allowed Jewish immigrants to stay in the colony as long as their community was self-supporting, but – with the support of the company – forbade them to build a synagogue, forcing them to worship in a private house.

Often contrasted with auteur directors such as Stanley Kubrick, who tended to bring a distinctive directorial " look " to a particular genre, Wise is famously viewed to have allowed his ( sometimes studio assigned ) story to dictate style.

The charter allowed the full court of directors to nominate a smaller committee to act on any matter on its behalf.

However, on July 30, 2007, when the " earnest money " was due to the town, the deal was cancelled by the land developer over a dispute with the town board of directors over how long a period was to be allowed for due diligence.

This allowed directors to stamp more of their aesthetic credo on the productions.

Most of the Private Snafu shorts are educational, and although the War Department had to approve the storyboards, the Warner directors were allowed great latitude in order to keep the cartoons entertaining.

Schlesinger's hands-off attitude toward his animators allowed Freleng and his fellow directors almost complete creative control and room to experiment with cartoon comedy styles, which allowed the studio to keep pace with the Disney studio's technical superiority.

The New German Cinema also allowed for female directors to come to the fore and for the development of a feminist cinema which encompassed the works of directors such as Von Trotta, Helma Sanders-Brahms and Helke Sander.

This clause allowed him to do so, and in consequence to be elected to the company's board of directors at the 1942 annual shareholders ' meeting ; he was also appointed the UGG's vice president.

A resolution that would have allowed the party president a director of the party ’ s fund was defeated because it also permitted the twelve directors of the fund to become unelected “ ex-officio ” delegates.

To earn some income from the tunnel, the company directors allowed sightseers to view the shield in operation.

No contestant or directors will be allowed to converse with judges while contest is going on.

He was then formally signed for the role in the 1995 sequel Batman Forever to play opposite Billy Dee Williams as Two-Face, but the mid-production change in directors from Tim Burton to Joel Schumacher would result in both parts being recast and Wayans being paid out ( Williams was not yet signed on, but he received a penalty fee as his contract for Batman allowed him the option of reprise ), for which he still receives some royalty payments to this day.

Crimson Tide, made several years after Days of Thunder, was the critical and commercial success it was, Metcalf says, because after similar excesses on the producers ' part like those that occurred on Thunder directors were allowed to reassert themselves.

It was only after being urged by casting directors Jane Jenkins and Janet Hirshenson that Cusack was allowed to audition, after which Reiner knew he had to have him for the part.

He was allowed to nominate his successor, Billy McNeill, and Stein thought an agreement was in place for him to join the Celtic board of directors.

It was said that Collier was allowed to make fewer and fewer decisions, having to defer instead to a board of directors that often changed and may have been involved in financial improprieties.

This eliminated the boards of directors for these companies, and allowed revenue generated by the divisions to flow directly to Textron.

The carbon-arc source was so bright that it allowed film directors to make " day " at night, which also heralded the era of blinding actors – a term coined as " Klieg eye ".

Because he didn't declare himself all-in, the tournament directors allowed him to continue playing.