• But both venerable British savings institutions are in the decline in the UK. There are some who believe that most defined benefit schemes will be wound up within half a century, so they're unlikely to be buyers of debt that will outlive them.

    BBC: Should Osborne borrow for 100 years?

  • Weaker banks should go bust, then be wound up or sold to stronger institutions, including foreign bidders.

    ECONOMIST: Bank reform in Japan

  • The company, which was established in 1901, is expected to be wound up over the next three months.

    BBC: Family firm Woollons and Harwood closes after 112 years

  • The bank is due to be wound up under Cyprus's bailout deal.

    BBC: George Osborne criticises handling of Cyprus bailout

  • The Culture, Media and Sport committee criticised a "lack of dialogue" with the UK Film Council - which is also due to be wound up next week.

    BBC: Museums Council axing should be reviewed, say MPs

  • This replaced the mutual defence clause of the Western European Union (WEU) which will be wound up in 2011, and which currently consists of delegations from national parliaments.

    BBC: Security and Defence Committee

  • But it will consist overwhelmingly of the dodgy bits of the investment bank (such as its leveraged-loan and property activities), which will probably be wound up over several years.

    ECONOMIST: Dismantling Royal Bank of Scotland

  • An inquiry in 2008 concluded a nuclear submarine snagging the boat's trawl was the "highly probable cause" of the sinking, but the judges recommended the investigation be wound up, with no guilty party traced.

    BBC: France probes US submarine link to fishing boat sinking

  • Despite facing a united front of the US Department of Justice and Microsoft, both anxious for their four-year-old case to be wound up quickly, she has remained determined to give careful consideration to all the options.

    ECONOMIST: Back to the courts | The

  • The Communications Consumer Panel, a body that is due to be wound up in the near future, has submitted its response to Ofcom's consultation on an auction which promises to give us both wider coverage and faster speeds.

    BBC: 4G? How about some 2G says consumer group

  • Marta Andreassen, now a UKIP MEP, said the report was so bad that if it was an audit for the accounts of a private company, the board of directors would be fired, and the company would be wound up.

    BBC: Court of Auditors annual report

  • There have even been suggestions that the Connacht team, which reached the quarter-finals of this year's Celtic League, could be wound-up.

    BBC: Connacht rugby in crisis

  • When the recession hit, workers had built up a large number of extra hours in their working-time accounts that could be wound down as work dried up.

    ECONOMIST: How Germany weathered the recession

  • The researchers in the Science Translational Medicine paper, working directly with Illumina, first developed a diagnostic test that captured 600 genes that were likely to be the reason the babies wound up in the NICU. That panel is being sold as a kit by Illumina and will likely be used by some commercial laboratories that have government certifications to do diagnostic testing.

    FORBES: DNA Sequencing: Is Science Fiction Becoming Medical Fact?

  • The Premier League new boys were not to be denied and Delap wound up another throw.

    BBC: Stoke 3-2 Aston Villa

  • What is different today is that anything that wound up on the cutting room floor can be quickly repackaged or developed as DLC.

    FORBES: Game Design, Project Management And The Age of DLC

  • The opposite turned out to be true, and Dimon wound up with egg on his face.

    FORBES: The JPMorgan London Whale: Now it's Criminal?

  • Louis, trained to be a massage therapist and wound up following Kidd to the Bay Area.

    FORBES: Jack Dorsey: Leadership Secrets Of Twitter And Square

  • Many of us have wound up in places we never expected or wanted to be, emotionally as well as physically, I suppose.

    NPR: Get Out of Town

  • After Congress removed the tax break in 1986, and the bloated property market went bust in 1989, legions of investors wound up with partnership units so troubled they could scarcely be given away.

    FORBES: Limited Returns

  • He revealed that 5% to 7% of players who agreed to random testing in 2003 wound up testing positive, though he figures the actual usage rate to be much higher, since drugs like Human Growth Hormone can't be detected in tests.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The problems then allegedly began when the installer whipped out a heat gun, which was purportedly intended to be used to mold a mounting guide for the GPS unit but instead wound up melting one of the Civic's heating ducts.

    ENGADGET: Man left with $12k in damages after Circuit City GPS install gone wrong

  • Elizabeth Ironside, she learned, is a pseudonym for Catherine Manning, wife of the British ambassador to the U.S. The rights to Garden had reverted to Manning once the book went out of print in the U.K. Lady Manning was thrilled to be published in America, and her husband, Sir David Manning, wound up hosting a book party at the British embassy in Washington, D.

    FORBES: Publish or Perish

  • One intern was supposed to be working in the public relations department of a New York fashion conglomerate but wound up spending the summer reorganizing the makeup supply closet.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As part of the deal, Chevron wound up owning Molycorp and since Chevron did not have much of a mining business Bhappu figured it might be available for purchase.

    FORBES: The Money Man Behind America's Rare Earth Minerals

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