This helps it to avoid formally having to block the bid by invoking EU law on public-security grounds.
The Obama administration on Friday said it would stop granting new waivers to the health-care overhaul in September following sharp opposition from Republicans who cited the waivers in their bid to undermine the law.
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Predictably Hochtief has resisted, asking for changes in German law to make the bid, which will allow creeping acquisition of shares over a 30% threshold, more expensive.
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Its bid requests are sent to either law offices with an expertise in certain matters or to firms in regions of the country for which it needs representation.
That's seen as an important move, because if Novartis were to buy a full 33% of Roche, it would be compelled under Swiss law to make a formal bid for the shares it didn't own.
While South Wales topped the table with a 16.9% drop in crime, the figures revealed a steep rise in violent crime, threatening to overshadow the government's bid to emphasise its tough approach to law and order.
"The law is being used in a bid to silence dissent in Kuwait, " he said.
He said the administration had bipartisan support in its bid to get the Supreme Court to nullify the marriage law.
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He has been bunking there, protected from arrest under international law, while the South American country considers his bid for asylum.
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South Africa's parliament has approved a controversial new gun law which places stricter controls on legal firearm owners in a bid to curb violent crime.
From her sister-in-law, he learns the girl has swallowed sharp jewelry in a bid to kill herself.
Under Luxembourg's law the owner of more than 33% of a company is obliged to make a full bid for the firm, but the duchy's regulator made an exception for Mr Mordashov.
The presidential bid of Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, came to grief partly because he had signed a law allowing certain undocumented students to pay the same rates as other state residents at public universities.
"There cannot be a rule that says if you have a representative on the board, you can't make a bid for the company, " said Lawrence Hamermesh, a professor at Delaware's Widener University School of Law.
Dubai's reputation took a beating on Thursday when Swedish regulators said its main stock exchange had broken the law by announcing plans to buy more than 25% of OMX, a week before its official bid.
Despite the calls in Washington for some sort of sanctions, Mr Bush is still backing Russia's bid to join the WTO because he believes that having to live by its rules will strengthen the rule of law in Russia.
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