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".
"So unlike the other situations where you would put in capital mainly to fill a hole, in the case of Assured, the capital is going in gradually over the next year to help [Assured Chief Executive Dominic J. Frederico Dominic J. Frederico ] propel himself to a new level".
a) Delay any investigation until the President has left office, thereby assuring smooth executive governance.
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.
At least until the Democratic candidate is assured, the executives agreed the only thing to do was support them all.
"That was talked about a lot," says Darlene Hunt, who created "The Big C" and sold it to Showtime, assuring network executives that they could count on more than, say, a two-year run.
A1 Buffett Criticizes Stock Options Warren E. Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has renewed his attack against the widespread use of stock options and at the ways corporations assure that executives will profit from options even if the company's share price declines.
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.
He has said he would like for that to happen, and the Federal Reserve Bank has announced that it will soon require all major banks to abide by structural guidelines intended to assure that executives are compensated based on performance and that they are not given incentives to take undue risk.
