"We believe that entering into this agreement provides the best opportunity for Harry & David to restructure its balance sheet on an expedited basis, strengthen its operations and create long-term value, while continuing to provide customers with the highest quality products and service," Kay Hong, chief restructuring officer and interim chief executive, said in a statement on Monday.
The point of the legislation, which took effect in June 2009, was to prohibit the use of unauthorized additives and also, more broadly, to provide a basis for strengthening oversight "from farm to fork".
Others called the European Union's action a significant setback for Hezbollah, partly because it could provide the United States with a new legal basis for strengthening its own sanctions against Hezbollah's commercial and fund-raising activities in a way that could then pressure the Europeans to do the same.
Eventually, this information will provide a basis for strengthening linkages between upstream and downstream communities in the context of sustainable management.
Disaster risk reduction strategies should give greater emphasis to building livelihood resources as a basis for strengthening local capacity and vice versa.
SCEs are important elements of the suicide process and we conclude that better understanding of how they occur and the challenges they pose for significant others may provide a basis for strengthening public involvement in suicide prevention.
These categories provide an important orientation to the general causes of childbirth-related deaths and as such are fundamental to establishing a basis for strengthening health systems.
It is therefore instructive to consider the individual characteristics of those who succeed and those who fail as a basis for strengthening future schemes.
Nonetheless, recent reviews have highlighted slow progress, particularly in establishing a functional district health system (DHS) as a basis for strengthening primary health care (PHC) [ 2, 3].
Mind-set changes, focused on concern for the population being served, the broader social determinants of health, and a willingness to act, are likely to be the fundamental basis for strengthening and sustaining PHC.
