In any regulatory challenge or crisis, businesses have to make separate assessments of each public entity with which they must deal.
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Only time will tell what will happen to Gamestop, whether it is taken private or whether it will remain as an independent, public entity.
But will Penthouse Media Group, as a public entity, excite investors?
Expedia recently decided to spin-off TripAdvisor into a separate public entity.
"We're a public entity, we live on the good will of the public and so we adapted to what we perceived as criticism, " Mr Blankfein said.
The Times said Lehman's chief executive, RichardFuldRichard Fuld, has drawn up plans in which one public entity would be spun off and consist entirely of mortgage debt and associated risk.
No entity public or private is derives much benefit from yet another buyer of short term US Treasuries.
The value to any entity, public or private, of having another ditch dug by hand is extremely low.
It is not simply a technical issue and can impact customers, employees business associates and the public perception of the entity.
Next do an internal forensic audit of every entity that spends public dollars.
Thus, Arizona courts have interpreted the gift clause to mean that if the state or one of its municipal governments gives money to a private business entity, the public must get something back of equivalent value.
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"We're just like any company, we're a commercial entity that provides a public service, " he said.
Another option is to establish a supporting organization, which is a separate entity treated as a public charity because it is affiliated with one or more public charities the donor wishes to support.
If the story is really hitting a sore point and you feel the need to yell your opinion out a window, try journaling or writing to an entity that has a public voice or mission on related issues.
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But now, Zynga is an entity all its own: a public company before Facebook and a global brand both through its games and as Zynga.
It has filed 49 securities lawsuits over the past two years, sometimes at a rate of two or three a week, making a mockery of provisions in the Public Securities Litigation Reform Act that prohibits any entity from serving as a lead plaintiff in more than five cases in a three-year period.
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The Labour Party disputes that it has accepted any public money, arguing that MAG is a separate legal entity from the councils.
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In that regard, utility deals need approval from the public service commissions of each jurisdiction in which the combined entity is to do business, as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.
Although it creates ownership shares in the new entity, those shares are not sold to the public.
As for the city, it was given property by a private entity for the purposes of using it as a public nature preserve.
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The idea was to have some entity--employer, private or possibly a public sponsor--set up a menu of choices for people and give them a lot of information about each choice.
The chamber and AFL also have agreed to create a new federal bureau to inform Congress and the public about labor supply issues, but the role of that entity remains unclear.
While it may command much public goodwill for the invaluable service it renders, as a business entity, MTRC has an unimpressive balance sheet.
McDonough, a former executive of First Chicago, did a 10-year stint as head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before becoming the first chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a U.S. regulatory entity overseeing the accounting profession, in 2003.
McDonough, a former executive of First Chicago, did a 10-year stint as head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (nyse: BK - news - people ) before becoming the first chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a U.S. regulatory entity overseeing the accounting profession, in 2003.
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