But Mr Straw has insisted throughout that he has acted "by the book" in all three cases.
In these cases, the utility book value of nuclear or technologically obsolete plants and equipment exceeds market value.
In such cases, the rule book says the player must drop the ball "as nearly as possible" to the spot where he'd played his previous shot.
You do really need to read the book to understand the story behind each case, because it tells the cross-relationships of these cases to the larger proposition of the book itself.
But I think that when we look back at the history of the e-book market one of the classic business school cases is going to be how stupid it was for publishers to sue Google.
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Harvey Silverglate discusses both Milken brothers and their cases at length in his most recent book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.
Accountant Joseph Petrucelli. author of the newly released book Detecting Fraud in Organizations , has seen numerous cases of once-trusted employees being responsible for large thefts from their employer.
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Yet regulators and lawsuit-fearful auditors pressed banks and other financial firms to relentlessly knock down the book value of this subprime paper, even in cases where these obligations were being serviced in the payment of principal and interest.
In both cases there were worries that bringing leaders to book would up-end peace efforts, but these proved unfounded.
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Newspapers, magazines and book sales have declined across the board and in some cases physical versions have disappeared entirely.
Another theme in the book is Gladwell's effort to understand and explain success: In some cases, such as the "showtime rotisserie, " created by infomercial pitchman Ron Popeil, and the market dominance of Heinz ketchup, he attributes a product's success to its intrinsic excellence.
And calling cases like mine the exception and forgetting that this is also true of every book in the center aisle of the bookstore is also facile.
In an image from the 1973 book "Rock Dreams, " he and those four others are pictured in tuxedos carrying guitar cases into a building.
She said the book ban probably came in around the middle of the 18th century, a time when various legal cases saw several books deemed to be too rude to be allowed for sale.
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