Unilever said it anticipated $500 million in such savings, but in talks with investors, Bestfoods has asserted that closer to $1 billion could be saved through a merger.
FORT MEADE, Md .-- Bradley Manning's crimes were so serious that he deserves to spend 60 years in prison, the government asserted during closing arguments in the sentencing phase of Manning's court martial on Monday.
IN Ohio, Wisconsin and other states facing budget deficits, some elected officials assert that closing those gaps requires achieving labor savings and weakening labor unions.
Perhaps -- I remember António Lobo Antunes asserting something close to this idea -- that's the greatest quality you find in a book.
Recognizing the paucity of their own case, the Prop 8 defenders of anti-gay discrimination went as far as to assert during closing arguments that they "don't have to have evidence" -- a shocking assertion in any case, especially one that's weighing direct injury to thousands of couples and the constitutional guarantee of equal protection.
The former general counsel of Tyco International, Mark A. Belnick, received $17 million from his boss, L. Dennis Kozlowski, to cover up misuse of company funds, a state prosecutor asserted yesterday in closing arguments at Mr. Belnick's criminal trial in Manhattan.
The most explosive revelation of the trial came when Mr. Bo asserted in his closing speech that Mr. Wang had had a final falling out with Mr. Bo and fled to a nearby American Consulate in February 2012 in large part because of tensions that boiled over from his infatuation with Ms. Gu.
"Everything I've mentioned is possible," Moniz asserted, "but nowhere close to being possible at a cost point and scale that looks reasonable".
As Manning's 38-day trial came to an end, his lawyer, David Coombs, asserted in his closing sentencing argument on Monday that Manning was far more complex than partisans on either side acknowledged.
It may be said that I failed to tell him that the station was closed, since he had already left the room when I said so, but that I still asserted that it was closed, since I believed he was still there.
