The rapid stock decline was largely driven by selling by growth mutual funds that are now almost completely divested of the stock.
Even if, by a sudden stroke of enlightenment, Singapore divested itself of its biggest company and brought in outsiders to manage it, the list of possible partners for it grows shorter by the day.
Perhaps the Kremlin will not be satisfied until Menatep has divested itself of everything it owns.
We passed through the change rooms, where we divested ourselves of our clothes and left them in unlocked lockers.
Beginning in 1990, the state divested itself of control of the energy industry.
Union Carbide, which divested itself of its Indian subsidiary's stock in the 1990s, was acquired later by Dow Chemical, based in Midland, Mich.
Additionally, Citigroup is leaner than it has been in a long time, having divested itself of assets like Smith Barney, Primerica (PRI), and Japanese brokerage unit Nikko Securities.
But the scandals helped ruin Freed -- he was hurt by negative publicity -- while Clark divested himself of his music business interests and was praised as a hard-working young businessman, Covach says.
They abolished the aristocracy and divested 11 families of imperial status, considerably shrinking the pool from which future emperors could be drawn.
Shal has voluntarily divested himself entirely of all personal investments in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries that could be perceived as a conflict of interest.
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The Nevada district court held that the charging order divested the Debtor of both his membership and management rights in the two LLCs, and thus concluded that the other (non-Debtor) partner was the sole manager of those companies.
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Third on the roster and marked as "highly unlikely" is a purchase of MetroPCS. The carrier was bitterly opposed to the T-Mo merger and pouted at the idea of purchasing some of Big Blue's divested assets, so if those two met around a table, they'd have a lot of awkward apologizing to do.
But as Rio's difficulties in unloading some of Alcan's subsidiaries illustrate, getting decent prices for divested assets would been almost impossible in an industry paralysed by a dearth of financing.
When economic recovery takes hold, nationalized banks will gradually be divested -- and the track record of the Asian Crisis countries on privatization is good.
In 1976 he mortgaged his hotels to buy some of the western properties that Atlantic Richfield had divested after buying Sinclair.
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GoldenSource was a division of International Business Machines (IBM) that former CEO Lou Gerstner divested in 1994 to refocus and raise cash.
Last year, 3Com's handheld division, since divested, launched the Palm VII, which allows users to surf a limited number of websites.
The sale or spinoff would be just one of several by drugmakers: Pfizer spun off its veterinary products business, and Abbott Laboratories divested its drugs unit.
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