With the rejection of the Texas Pacific Group's offer, the City of Portland announced it contacted Enron to resume negotiating an offer to purchase PGE.

With recent economic schemes and company abuses, such as in the Bernard Madoff scandal, the Enron scandal, and the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, the German model of a rigidly structured and regulated economy has become more attractive, as part of the financial crisis could be attributed to a lack of regulation associated with laissez-faire capitalism.

With the explosion of corporate scandals in 2002 – Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen, Tyco and others – Eichenwald returned to his familiar territory, reporting on the unfolding scandals and becoming a television fixture on such programs as Charlie Rose and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer in explaining the meaning of the latest developments.

With its success in the bull market brought on by the dot-com bubble, Enron seeks to beguile stock market analysts by meeting their projections.

With de Broglie's suggestion of the existence of electron matter waves in 1924, and for a short time before the full 1926 Schrödinger equation treatment of hydrogen like atom, a Bohr electron " wavelength " could be seen to be a function of its momentum, and thus a Bohr orbiting electron was seen to orbit in a circle at a multiple of its half-wavelength ( this historically incorrect Bohr model is still occasionally taught to students ).

With the descendents of Charles I thus either childless ( in the case of William III and Anne ) or Catholic, consideration then fell to the descendants of Elizabeth of Bohemia, the only other child of James I to have reached adulthood.

Thus, a heretic bearing the name of Sason (= Joy ) once remarked to him, " In the next world your people will have to draw water for me ; for thus it is written in the Bible ( Isaiah 12: 3 ), ' With joy shall ye draw water.

With the ruse thus revealed, the main characters run for their lives, resulting in a madcap chase across the stage with both Miles and Senex pursuing all three " Philia " s ( Domina, Hysterium, and the actual Philia — all wearing identical white robes and veils ).

With a $ 1. 92-billion-a-year tourism industry, Costa Rica stands as the most visited nation in the Central American region, with 1. 9 million foreign visitors in 2007, thus reaching a rate of foreign tourists per capita of 0. 46, one of the highest in the Caribbean Basin, and above other popular destinations such as Mexico ( 0. 21 ), Dominican Republic ( 0. 38 ), and Brazil ( 0. 03 ).

With an essential principle like " when the epoch changed, the ways changed ", it upholds the rule of law and is thus a theory of jurisprudence.

With the help of all this polygamy, the imperial clan thus was capable of producing more offspring.

With the resources thus gained he undertook to enable Philip V to carry out an ambitious foreign policy to undo the Treaty of Utrecht, with the aim of countering the Habsburgs and recovering Spanish possessions in Italy, where he was responsible for unwarranted invasions of Sardinia ( November 1717, strongly supported by Sardinian politician Vicente Bacallar ) and Sicily ( July 1718 ), in spite of promises made to the Pope, while pressing Spanish causes in France with the Cellamare Conspiracy.

With the SA thus neutralised, the SS became an independent organisation from 20 July 1934, responsible only to Hitler, and Himmler's title of Reichsführer-SS became the highest formal SS rank.

With Menzies ' support, Holt was elected leader of the Liberal Party, thus becoming Prime Minister.

The Federal German government thus agreed to the 1990 Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany ( Two Plus Four Agreement ), which officially re-established both German states ' sovereignty.

With the Renaissance came an increase in experimental investigation, principally in the field of dissection and body examination, thus advancing our knowledge of human anatomy.

With partible inheritance large estates are slowly divided among many descendants and great wealth is thus diluted, leaving higher opportunities to individuals to make a success.

With the NEP, the socialist nationalisation of the economy could then be developed to industrialise Russia, strengthen the working class, and raise standards of living ; thus the NEP would advance socialism against capitalism.

With 47 unknown cards, the player will make the straight approximately one time for every five times he doesn't, thus a bet is profitable if six or more of his opponents will call the bet ( he will win once (< font color =" green ">+ 6 bets </ font >) and lose five times (< font color =" red ">- 5 bets </ font >) out of every six hands like this, resulting in an expectation of < font color =" green ">+ 1 bet </ font >).

With the Red Army forces still stationed in the country and exerting de facto control, Communists and their allied parties claimed 80 % of the vote, through a combination of vote manipulation, elimination, and forced mergers of competing parties, thus establishing themselves as the dominant force.

With other vendors ( with the notable exception of ICT ), customers had to choose between machines they could outgrow and machines that were potentially overpowered ( and thus too expensive ).

A prominent feature about it was a device designed by Sinister that negated the powers of any mutant in the Savage Land save for Sinister's own forces, rendering the X-Men powerless while fighting him ( With the exception of Wolverine's claws as they were a ' bonus ' of the Weapon X process, although they would thus cause damage to his hands when used ) until the machinery was destroyed.

With the creation of Al-Andalus, most of the Iberian peninsula is conquered by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost eight centuries of Muslim presence there.

With the encouragement of Histiaeus ( his father-in-law and former tyrant of Miletus ), Aristagoras, governor of Miletus, induces the Ionian cities of Asia Minor to revolt against Persia, thus instigating the Ionian Revolt and beginning the Greco-Persian Wars between Greece and Persia.

* May 12 – Nine Years ' War: With England and the Netherlands both now ruled by William III, they join the Grand Alliance ( League of Augsburg ), thus escalating the conflict, which continues until 1697.

With a firm water management system in place, the Sacramento River's flow was thus regulated and a highly controlled regime of irrigation and water diversions was able to begin.

With economic progress, therefore, we can everywhere observe the phenomenon of a certain number of goods, especially those that are most easily saleable at a given time and place, becoming, under the powerful influence of custom, acceptable to everyone in trade, and thus capable of being given in exchange for any other commodity.

With the Gregorian Calendar starting in 1582, and 1600 being evenly divisible by 400, and thus being a leap year under the Gregorian system despite being a century year, this was the first skipped leap year under the Gregorian Calendar.

With the publication of the DSM-III, which omitted the terms " hysteria " and " neurosis " ( and thus the former categories for dissociative disorders ), dissociative diagnoses became " orphans " with their own categories with dissociative identity disorder appearing as " multiple personality disorder ".

With sole regard to the central object and the surrounding ring, the motions would be indistinguishable from each other assuming that both the central object and the surrounding ring were absolutely rigid objects.

With this military purpose on his mind, Antony sailed to Greece with Octavia, where he behaved in a most extravagant manner, assuming the attributes of the Greek god Dionysus in 39 BC.

With a minor on the throne, the Empire was thrown into confusion, with Otto III's mother Theophanu assuming the role of regent for her young son.

With the aid of funds collected by his Madras disciples and Rajas of Mysore, Ramnad, Khetri, Dewans and other followers, Vivekananda left for Chicago on 31 May 1893 from Bombay assuming the name Vivekananda — the name suggested by the Maharaja of Khetri, Ajit Singh.

* With Molon occupying significant parts of the Seleucid kingdom and assuming the title of king, on the advice of his chief Minister, Hermeias, Antiochus III abandons a campaign to conquer southern Syria from Egypt.

* With Antigonus and Demetrius now each assuming the title of king, Ptolemy, as well as Cassander, Lysimachus and Seleucus I Nicator, respond by doing the same.

With the stipulation that her daughter be the exception in the eradication of her alternate " life ", Linda ultimately allows history to unfold as it should have, with Kara assuming her rightful but tragic place in the time-stream.

With 128 bits from MD5 plus 32 bits from the rolling checksum, and assuming maximum entropy in these bits, the probability of a hash collision with this combined checksum is 2 < sup >−( 128 + 32 )</ sup > = 2 < sup >− 160 </ sup >.

With this method, you are to start off by assuming a posture in which you are not to use your hands.

With Bhutto assuming the control, the leftists and democratic socialists entered in county's politics, later emerged as power players in country's politics.

" With its semiconductor business growing so strongly, the company appeared able to weather the period it would take for its CTI products to make a major contribution to Mitel's revenues, assuming that the CTI market lived up to its promise.

With presence, the therapist judiciously “ shows up ” as a whole and authentic person, instead of assuming a role, false self or persona.

With only the revealed numerals the system rapidly becomes unwieldy in higher numbers ( for example, one hundred twenty-six in English becomes lots-lots-lots-lots-lots-lots-lots-many-many-many-two in trollish numerals, assuming that they do not have numerals higher than lots ), but this may not bother the trolls.

With no limits imposed, no guidance offered, no one assuming responsibility for what occurred, and the Red Guards merely following their impulses, the assault upon their elders and the destruction of property grew completely out of control.

With regard to teleological judgement, Schopenhauer claimed that Kant tried to say only this: "… although organized bodies necessarily seem to us as though they were constructed according to a conception of purpose which preceded them, this still does not justify us in assuming it to be objectively the case.

With the use of computers, both forms may be calculated but expression ( 3 ), assuming a constant yield, is more widely used because of the application to modified duration.

With Jacobs assuming vocal duties, Larson on bass guitar and Terry on trumpet, the trio recruited several more musicians from their church and other local bands to piece together a full ensemble.

With Optimus under his control in this manner, Megatron was able to duplicate the process that had upgraded his foe, merging his spark with the original Megatron's and assuming a new transmetal 2 dragon form.

With lead singer Steve Perry now assuming a role as a rhythm guitarist, Kids on the Street predominantly features guitar-driven ska and punk, though also branches into such genres as southern rock (" Luther Lane "), western swing (" Silver-Tongued Devil ") and jazz (" Here Comes the Snake ").

With North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) forces assuming control of the region on August 1, violence continued to wage and American forces remained in the eastern provinces.

With the Liberal reaction and strong reform movement which characterized the earlier years of Alexander II's reign ( 1855-1881 ) he thoroughly sympathized, and for some time he warmly advocated the introduction of liberal institutions of the British type, but when he perceived that the agitation was assuming a Socialistic and Nihilist tinge, and that in some quarters of the Liberal camp indulgence was being shown to Polish national aspirations, he gradually modified his attitude until he came to be regarded by the Liberals as a renegade.

With the world in a state of heightened alert and panic, and with one of their number assuming the role of Acting Prime Minister, they persuaded the United Nations to allow the United Kingdom to use its nuclear arsenal against the alien " massive weapons of destruction ".

With the advent of cassette tape technology in the 1970s, a number of companies began selling copies of the 1950 Scourby recordings without permission, assuming that they were in public domain.

With Quasar assuming the mantle of Protector of the Universe, Oblivion saw him as a threat to his agenda and set Deathurge against him, both before and after Quasar thwarted Maelstrom's plot to collapse the universe into a gargantuan black hole.