He might be able to keep it in that range, with US Airways threatening bankruptcy and United close to the brink.

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In total, RBS is facing unquantified claims over losses to shareholders, starting in the US, and with UK shareholders threatening action.

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Satyam executives probably found the additional scrutiny by the PwC US team expensive, tedious, and threatening to their scam.

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This was a global banking crisis, and banks all over the world with big exposure to property - banks in Ireland, Spain, the US and elsewhere - incurred life-threatening losses.

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It is not, however, the for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix that have worried us for years, nibbling around the edges at our enrollments and threatening our monopoly.

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Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer now proposes a new "international regime" to control and destroy weapons of mass destruction, as an alternative to the US strategy of threatening military force.

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It keeps rolling as the antihero, studio production chief Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), murders a screenwriter he thinks is threatening him, endures a police investigation, defends his corporate turf, and takes us through the process that can transform even a tough-minded flop into a potential smash hit.

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It has thrown the US television industry into disarray, postponed production on several major films and is threatening to spoil Hollywood's annual awards season.

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