We now know that Slim was in negotiations with Verizon to sell his shares, negotiating his sweetheart deal.
Under those two hats lies a potential sweetheart deal that has Loral stockholders screaming foul.
Sweetheart deal or no, the Air Transport Association (ATA) will be a formidable force in the debate.
Now, the administration has decided to give a similar sweetheart deal to another questionable regime: Mikhail Gorbachev's.
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Under Obama, GM bondholders were expropriated to give the UAW a sweetheart deal that no bankruptcy court would have approved.
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His biggest personal lender also got a sweetheart deal in joint ventures with Chesapeake the corporation via a preferred stock transaction.
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Malone then struck that sweetheart deal, giving Starz the capital it needed to buy first-run movies to compete with HBO and Showtime.
Offor and ERHC reportedly got a sweetheart deal on its blocks, despite limited operating experience and insufficient access to the necessary capital.
Arafat cronies run contractors like al Bahr, which has a sweetheart deal to provide information technology services to the PA finance ministry.
The sweetheart deal for lifetime airplane use in retirement was quickly disappearing.
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It's tough to make the case that the two biggest oil companies from the countries that invaded Iraq in 2003 are getting a sweetheart deal.
That might be going on here as well, but if not, Cleveland would have to be offering a heck of a sweetheart deal to sign these guys up.
Speaking in Brussels, Taioseach Enda Kenny, the prime minister, said much the same over allegations that Ireland created a special sweetheart deal of a 2 percent tax rate for Apple alone.
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But even before the Bank of Commerce debacle, he was tarnished by allegations over the past year that he got a sweetheart deal to buy shares in Mutual Fund Co. in 1991.
It is past time for the Bush Administration to come to grips with these portentous consequences of a German-Soviet sweetheart deal and candidly explain them to the Congress and the American people.
Shares in natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy surged Tuesday morning, after the company announced it will split its chief executive and chairman roles and put an early end to the sweetheart deal the current occupier of both jobs enjoys.
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The Sweetheart Deal: In this classic scenario, the bribe-payer conveys something of significant value to the recipient at a price far below its real value a car , a house, stock, a work of art or jewelry.
Think of the other disasters: Countrywide Financial, Washington Mutual and Wachovia, over which Citigroup is squealing like a stuck pig because it somehow wanted to buy Wachovia in a sweetheart deal just like JPMorgan CEO JamesDimonJamie Dimon, who got to bail out Bear Stearns at cents on the dollar with government guarantees.
O'Leary joined the board of an Energy Department contractor to whom she appears to have thrown a sweetheart deal -- keeping steady its remuneration for providing security at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility in Colorado -- but cutting the security workforce the firm was responsible for paying to do that job.
It is not really eight months old it just looks that way because Mr Li bought a small local firm called Tricom Holdings last May and used it to list the Internet ventures of his existing property conglomerate, the Pacific Century Group, which until then was best-known for winning a sweetheart deal from Hong Kong's government to build an industrial park.
The Japanese government was pilloried for agreeing to such a "sweetheart" deal.
Despite backing legislation that would end Ace's perceived sweetheart tax deal, both Chubb and Hartford had lower tax rates than Ace in 1999.
This "sweetheart" deal for Caterpillar demands close congressional scrutiny.
So do not expect Cowboys Stadium to be named differently in the near future, unless Jerry Jones receives a sweetheart of a deal.
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