In what appears to have been bad timing, Alliance Capital Management, a subsidiary of AXA, increased its stake in Enron late this summer.
Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, argues for opening up American gas exports to the region, to weaken Russia's grip as an energy supplier.While Putin puts the boot in, the West is disputingAlas, Team Obama is surprisingly bad at alliances.
He will miss Arnott and Sykora, and he said it was too bad that their alliance had ended.
You have practically everything in a story about women being left by bad guys; the alliances and misalliances between scorned or betrayed women are a marvelous theatrical subject, filled with the kitschy and the deep, the mundane and the sublime.
An alliance of bad creatures called the Covenant had killed billions of people, and this drop might be an opportunity to save humankind.
One obstacle to co-operation between Mr Draskovic and the alliance is the bad blood between him and Zoran Djindjic, head of the opposition Democratic Party.
He's very clear that the Cylon alliance is a bad idea, but much less so on how or what they're going to do next.
The Cold War necessitated alliances with some bad apples, Washington realists contended.
"Coalition is a bad word, because it makes people think of alliances," said Robert Oakley, former head of the State Department's counterterrorism office and former ambassador to Pakistan.
The need for action is confirmed by NPR's own ethics code, which specifically spells out why the Fox News-type of alliance is such a bad idea.
