It also bulked up its asset-management and private-banking arms, run by Jacques d'Estais (who used to head the investment bank).
But as it turned out, the German government was just as unrelaxed about allowing EADS - owner of Airbus and therefore a strategically important manufacturer - to run itself in an arms-length and commercial way.
Another recipient of the medal, Lino Pires, 79, has run the Butcher's Arms Restaurant in Priors Hardwick, near Southam, for more than 38 years.
Bad employees are increasingly difficult to hire, as employees immediately run to the eager, waiting arms of an attorney when they are fired for cause.
He was expected first to focus on bolstering the ceasefire, channelling reconstruction aid through the Fatah-run PA rather than Hamas, and on measures to stop arms reaching Gaza via tunnels under the border with Egypt or by sea from Iran.
Cano earned MVP honors, Erick Aybar added an RBI double to back winner Samuel Deduno, and the demonstrative Dominican righty threw his arms into the air in delight after watching a run-saving defensive gem by center fielder Alejandro De Aza in a tough fifth.
The ball was shipped onto Jonathan Sexton, on for O'Driscoll, and the replacement got his arms round Paul Sackey to send Fitzgerald on a free run to the line.
As I slowly got my arms around the place, I would from time to time run across the personality of the unfaithful husband.
He hit forehands and backhands from inside the baseline, and used the unique arms that seem to stretch 10 feet when he's on the run.
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The state-run papers did not say just what it was that lured Guinea-Bissau into the arms of another.
It features the Sims twins from Dunt, South Australia, whom we first met in We Can be Heroes, and a rival to Mr G called Gran, who helps run a juvenile detention centre, in a lime-green shirt embroidered with the Australian coat of arms.
While Strasburg gave up a run on three hits while also walking two, the Mets got a look at one of their bright, young arms in the form of 22-year-old right-hander Rafael Montero.
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