Setting planning assumptions is a normal part of the spending round process.
"It's one thing to absorb regulatory or legal review or another round of process on a five- or six-megawatt project, " says Thornton.
Air-capture schemes revolve round a process of reversible absorption.
The charity has not yet estimated the market value of the building but has said this will be explored further if gets through the first round of the bidding process.
Halliburton won the first round in a no-bid process, but the remainder of the work will be awarded in an open bid this fall.
Robert Ziegler is in the process of raising a second round of funding for his second mobile payments venture, Corduro, based in Southlake, Texas.
In the process of buying and turning round more than 30 companies, he realised that a third of the employees he encountered were illiterate and two-thirds could not do basic mathematics.
Virool, which went through Y Combinator in the summer of 2012, decided to keep the funding as a seed instead of a venture round because it wanted to keep the process simple and not have to deal with board meetings, Debelov says.
It will be the third round of discussions since Mr Cameron instigated the trilateral process last year.
I've had a constructive dialogue, there are outstanding questions, we shouldn't hide that, the SDLP owned inquiries and a number of other areas but I think that what impressed me as an attendee for the first time at these particular round-table talks was the absolute commitment of everyone there to make this process work.
When I first went through a funding round I was completely alone, depending solely on my personal knowledge of how the process should be conducted.
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This is the first year that Wharton has formally launched the Team Based Discussion as part of the admissions process, having piloted the format last year with current students, and round three candidates in the spring of 2012.
He then initiated and had sustained negotiations with the Speaker of the House, which while they did not bear fruit in the terms of an agreed-upon grand compromise, they made clear through that process that for significant deficit reduction to be achieved, beyond the initial round of spending cuts that are part of this agreement, there has to be balance.
The recent round of consolidation in the financial industry has given them another excuse to step up this process: merger partners need to prune holdings so that banks' combined stakes do not exceed 5% of a company's stock, the legal limit.
Unfortunately the companies did not move fast enough, and both NTL and Telewest, the companies that emerged out of the round of business failures, takeovers and forced mergers, were bankrupt by the end of the process.
"It was a tough, laborious process but it ended up being phenomenal to get that many investors who can add value in one round, " says MedChannel Chief Executive Richard Sommer.
The process is complicated and somewhat cumbersome, but it basically allows the accountants to calculate both the first round of voting and then any needed runoffs in a systematic and fair way.
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