Then, on New Year's Day, Blackstone Group 's deal to buy mortgage originator PHH was terminated.

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Verizon also completed new agreements with a range of multinational corporations, including Constellation Energy, Epsilon, Masco Corp. and PHH Corp.

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PHH, a mortgage and vehicle leasing company, terminated a merger agreement it had reached with General Electric in March that depended on Blackstone Group buying its mortgage business.

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For those not in the know, the "Fancy Nancy" series of storybooks are about a little girl who likes to say "bonjour" instead of "hi, " is obsessed with extreme dress-up, and attempts to bedazzle the boring, plain world around her in a way that would make even Elton John go, 'Phh ... tacky.

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