But after riots and a coup in Madagascar, the deal is off.
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If the merger flops, you'd probably lose this much or more, since news that the deal is off will probably send Compaq shares down and HP shares up.
In other words, if the feds decide to move ahead on a national sales tax law or any other strategy that would subject Amazon to online sales tax in California during the moratorium, the deal is off.
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Asked about the situation at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday, Ballmer conceded that the company is probably better off that the deal never happened.
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The ratings agency is also assuming that the Hon Hai deal comes off and that Sharp manages to renegotiate its debt successfully.
But now, nearly a year later, some of the glow is off that deal. 28.
That deal is now off the table, but management will still want to consider becoming an even bigger player in the U.S. military market.
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If the deal is approved, Northrop will sell off the cars-parts division and hold on to the missile and space business, which brings satellite know-how with it.
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Although the possibility exist that shares can go higher once the RMT deal is completed, then again, shares can plummet is the spun-off shares flood the market.
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So my theory is this. (It has to be my theory because the school is certainly not divulging anything along these lines.) By signing Saccoccia to a new deal instead of shuffling him off, the school district is basically allowing the legal process to play out before taking any punitive action.
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There is a clause in the deal that off-take volumes could increase by 20% in 2014.
The solution is to prepare women to deal with the unmentionable, rather than taking them off the job.
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The second test of a successful acquisition is that the combined companies will be better off after the deal.
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Look at history, and you can see the religious left at the heart of America's great social-reform movements, from the fight against slavery to the New Deal to the civil-rights movement (for some reason, Prohibition is usually left off the list).
The preferred way to deal with rogue asteroids is still a Hollywood-style heroic space mission to knock the object off course, or possibly blow it up although almost surely as an unmanned effort.
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The headline news is that the Ravens held off a last minute 49ers push last night to seal the deal, winning the Super Bowl even after an ominous power outage.
Because the drug is off patent, the drugmaker has to deal with competition and generic versions of the drug.
They are making money together off that deal and term life is the biggest money maker of them all.
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The deal is expected to be completed soon, although a groundbreaking is months off.
The marketing push is paying off in subscriptions to its daily-deal emails.
It is just the latest billion-dollar deal from the NFL which kicks off its season tonight with a game between the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints.
If Facebook can keep private communications between small social groups secure and ad free but make its money off of the broader social content, that is a deal I think many users will be happy to keep.
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First off, I think cost cutting is helping the pharmaceutical industry deal with their patent cliff more effectively than the investment community was anticipating.
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It was a sweet deal for Stevenson, whose stock is off 80% since he got the cash.
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However, Megson defended the decision to take off Klasnic, who is on a season-long loan deal from Nantes.
Neither player is entering the final year of his deal, so the Eagles and Ravens are off the hook for paying two sizable paychecks.
Barring a quick deal in the next week or so to call them off, the impact eventually is likely to be felt in all reaches of the country.
As for PanAmSat, a reasonable guess is that it would eventually be sold off to help pay for the deal by which Murdoch acquires Hughes and its satellite unit, DirecTV .
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