Holly backed out of the deal, then Frontier sued Holly for breach of contract.
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In April, Charles Schwab Europe backed out of Huntingdon trades after protesters occupied its London offices.
Exxon Mobil has since backed out of its contract with Baghdad and also ventured into Kurdistan.
Despite 400 inquiries from well-to-do thrill seekers, Russell backed out of selling the Trainer, fearing liability.
Simpson backed out of a planned hour-long interview which was to have aired Wednesday night on NBC.
But the Maloofs backed out of the Sacramento arena deal weeks later and the agreement fell apart.
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AXA, a French insurer, backed out of insuring the 2002 tournament in Asia after that day's attacks.
Dell, quiet since private equity firm, Blackstone, backed out of the fight last month, is heating up again.
The two media titans have been duking it out since 1997, when Murdoch backed out of a deal to buy EchoStar.
Last month Apple made an interesting green business decision when it backed out of the EPEAT green electronics certification program.
Atul was set to make a killing, but a month later the technology bubble burst and Nomura backed out of the deal.
But in a stunning move, the Maloofs backed out of the tentative deal for a downtown arena, saying it didn't make financial sense.
It backed out of a plan to buy networking-gear maker 3Com in 2007 when the deal faced opposition form a U.S. security panel.
To keep the company focused on perfecting the ink for its flexible displays for handheld gadgets, Wilcox backed out of other time-consuming exploratory projects.
Project Openmoko, which was dedicated to producing a truly open Smartphone OS, backed out of phone hardware after the release of the FreeRunner in 2009.
When one officer saw Mr. Smith pushing the male hostage to the ground, the officer backed out of the house while the other remained inside, Lt.
The guy won my auction and then sent a note saying he had bid too much and was it okay if he backed out of the deal.
No state has completely pulled out of Common Core, but Utah and Alabama have backed out of the consortium of states working to create computer-based Common Core exams.
Bank of America, which was in the process of acquiring Merrill at the time, nearly backed out of the merger several months later because of staggering losses at Merrill.
The company is also suing onetime suitor Tyson Foods (nyse: TSN - news - people) to force it to honor a merger agreement that it later backed out of.
Or, if E85 could only capture a third of the market in the Midwest, all ethanol produced in the Midwest could be used locally in the Midwest and oil imports could be backed out of the region.
When the distributor, a much larger company that owned one of Britain's biggest printing plants, backed out of their contract and stopped distribution of his magazines, Desmond took his business directly to retailers and threatened to sue.
But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) cried foul, claiming that the Republicans had backed out of a bipartisan compromise, and promised that the Senate would not take up the matter until the House came around.
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So I went to table 1-8 and got the projections for those tax provisions and backed them out of the baseline forecast.
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So Leekley backed his boat out of the lock and waited on standby for another half-hour or so.
She backed out the value of nonnuclear assets to come up with an enterprise value for nuclear power plant owners.
Unfortunately for KKR Financial, mortgage-backed securities built out of well-performing loans, and the loans themselves, were treated as pariahs along with true subprime debt.
Mr. Boehner backed out, distrustful of bargaining with the president.
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