The adviser and the investor are both supposed to sign it — agreeing in advance, perhaps, to buy more stocks in a market plunge, and not to sell.
Expectations are adjusted all around and they go through with it, agreeing not to make it too much of a big deal, just to have dinner as if Dad were home.
We would expect a broker to know which lenders have this restriction and not to apply on your behalf to a lender whose rules would obviously prevent it agreeing to the application.
Later the consortium gave it 10% in return for it agreeing to expand the field.Likewise, at Kashagan, environmental officials have fined the field's operators $737m for burning off the poisonous gas, which the consortium argues was an emergency measure.
Since China says it is Britain which broke the rules, the chances of it agreeing are about as great as those of William Hague standing aside to make way for Chris Patten to lead the Tories.
When the affair does come to light, as it must, she neutralizes the pain of betrayal by consenting to it, agreeing to cut Nick in half, like the pretender to the baby in the Judgment of Solomon.
