If a hurricane is expected to strike, board them up with plywood or install hurricane shutters.
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Even with the payout, Microsoft has piled up a huge cash position in recent years, and thus could easily finance a large acquisition or, should the mood strike its board, lay another special dividend on shareholders or simply increase its payout.
Councillor Lorraine Cameron, convener of Renfrewshire's education policy board, said a strike would be "unhelpful" and "disrupt children's education".
But Mr. Miller said the board's move to strike against Mr. Okada was necessary because the company has a provision in its articles of incorporation that allows it to remove a shareholder that might jeopardize existing or future licenses.
The short-term increase in the borrowing cap is the brainchild of House Republicans, who wanted to re-sequence a series of upcoming budget battles, taking the threat of a potentially devastating government default off the table and instead setting up a clash in March over automatic across-the-board spending cuts set to strike the Pentagon and many domestic programs.
Under labor law, a series of steps involving efforts at negotiating are required before the National Mediation Board would release a union to strike.
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If Bush appoints a Presidential Emergency Board, the December 21 deadline for strike or settlement would be extended an additional 60 days -- until mid-February.
The CrossCountry strike will include train managers, senior conductors and on-board catering staff.
These hermit crabs strike fear into the hearts of seated airline passengers whenever they board, because their shells invariably bang into innocent shins all the way to their seat.
Hence, he says, his take-it-or-leave-it offer in September to PAL's three unions: a 20% employee stake in the company plus three seats on the 15-member board - in exchange for a commitment not to strike for 10 years and cuts in employee benefits that would add up to half of take-home pay.
Gayle, meanwhile, refused to be drawn on whether the West Indies would support strike action over a cash dispute between domestic players and their cricket board which could threaten the rest of the series.
Mark Fichtel, the CEO of the New York Board of Trade, remembers the tremor of the initial jet strike and looking out the windows of his office in 4 World Trade Center to see a shower of debris.
Mark Fichtel, chief executive of the New York Board of Trade, remembers the impact of the initial jet strike and looking out the windows of his office in Four World Trade Center to see a shower of debris.
We are deeply concerned that clients are choosing to appear unrepresented in court while their solicitor is on strike, even though the services of a duty solicitor provided by the Scottish Legal Aid Board are available to them, as this choice is unlikely to be in their best interests.
The decision to strike, agreed by a ballot of union members, follows a delay in a meeting of the board.
The strike followed the resignation of Dinanath Ramnarine, who heads the players' association, as a director of the board.
Lawyers for the board issued a memorandum rejecting a complaint brought by a group of 20 private bus companies who argued the strike was illegal.
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