"We are excited about EMI's future," said the music company's chairman, as he announced the collapse of yet another set of merger talks between his company and a rival on May 1st.
A few minutes into January 1st PHH, a mortgage company, announced the collapse of its $1.8 billion sale to a consortium led by Blackstone Group.In this section Whither the great wave?
The latest round of job cuts puts even more stress on James E. Cayne, the chief executive, whose leadership has been under scrutiny since Bear Stearns announced the collapse of two hedge funds in July.
After announcing the collapse of the deal, Roberts appeared on one of his company's own TV channels, CNBC, to discuss the situation.
That has irked human-rights groups, which have also blasted his Putinesque decision to vet non-governmental organisations.In this section Different kettles of fish Chickens and eggs Zig-zagging ReprintsOn August 15th he made what could be his most unpopular U-turn, announcing the collapse of a six-year effort to keep oil companies from drilling in a pristine part of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
On Friday, a few days after scientists announced that the collapse of the west Antarctic ice sheet is now inevitable, the Ecuadorean government decided to allow oil drilling in the heart of the Yasuni national park.
However, it is the first such case to be announced since the collapse of the Kieren Fallon trial at the Old Bailey, widely seen as a humiliating blow to the BHA's security department and its head, Paul Scotney. "What this shows is that it's business as usual for us, nothing's changed," said Scotney yesterday in a vigorous assertion of his department's effectiveness.
The legally-binding code was announced earlier this year after the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh in April killed more than 1,100 people.
Although he is a WGA member who pledged support for the writers, O'Brien announced that following the collapse of negotiations, Late Night with Conan O'Brien would return to air on January 2 , 2008 without writers, citing his non-writing staff facing layoffs as the main reason.
The federal prosecutor in Washington State has announced an investigation into the collapse of Washington Mutual, which was forced into an emergency sale to JPMorgan Chase in late September.
Confirmation of the Basel rules – announced two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers prompted billions of pounds of taxpayers' money to be used to prop up the ailing banking system – even prompted analysts at Credit Suisse to predict that Lloyds would be among the banks to have surplus capital by 2012.
