Just last month, Disney's new DreamWorks partners found themselves assuring executives that they would avoid any conflict with the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise as they sought to develop a film based on Michael Crichton's novel "Pirate Latitudes".
At a dinner Saturday night in the Marlborough Suite at the Dukes Hotel in London, Mr. Rubin, chairman of Citigroup's executive committee, assured Schroders executives that Salomon no longer was the "rough and tumble" trading operation it had been 10 years ago, according to a person who was there.
And even though Blatter assured his executive committee that FIFA's losses from ISL's bankruptcy would not exceed about $32 million, some committee members soon grew skeptical enough to approve an internal audit earlier this year, against Blatter's wishes.
Mr. Cooperman had assured the executive that he would not trade on the information, but regulators said that despite making that promise, he had his firm accumulate a bigger position and profited when Atlas's stock jumped 31percentt after the sale was announced.
"Definitely not," assures executive producer Nick Grace, who has spent much of his career promoting musicals.
At least until the Democratic candidate is assured, the executives agreed the only thing to do was support them all.
The company said in its complaint, filed in New York State Supreme Court, that it wanted to retrieve the money because Mr. Waksal had falsely assured company executives and directors that he was cooperating with federal investigators.
a) Delay any investigation until the President has left office, thereby assuring smooth executive governance.
Further in the year, we discussed Executive Order 9066, you asked, "Could something like this happen to Mexicans?" I assured you this Executive Order was went against the constitution.
Jay Harshmall, the deputy county executive, assured Ms. Thompson and the committee that officials would not "rely on school buses alone".
Who will get preferential treatment?" AOL assured the marketing executive that Warner Brothers films would not get preferential treatment.
