The Ricketts family's bid, originally $900 million, was reduced to $845 million during the summer, largely because of strains in the capital markets, Ricketts said.
Because of strains caused by World War I, the college closed in 1918, but it reopened in 1930.
Governments in China, India, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia have cut subsidies at least modestly in recent months because of strains on their budgets, and further subsidy cuts are considered likely, especially if oil prices continue to go up.
In an interview on Monday CNBC's program "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo," Mr. Thain repeated his promise to repay the cost of the renovations.News of the renovations came last week, just as Mr. Thain was being forced out of Bank of America because of strains over the merger of the two institutions.
In the Stranski-Krastanov (SK) growth, after the first few layers are formed, the nucleation of island begins because of strains and diffusivity of adatoms.
Each of the analyzed honeybee venom samples was different because of strains of the bees, year and season of the venom collection, and the place of origin (Poland, Georgia).
Because of strain localization, the TMAZ alone contributes to elongate during tensile loading.
The d-band center has been shown to be shifted because of strain and ligand effects in these bimetallic systems.
After approximately 30 cycles the residual depth increases only minimally with each additional cycle because of strain hardening and increased contact area.
Because of strain-softening in melt elongation, the PS-b-P4VP diblock copolymer generated homogeneous, open-celled foams throughout the whole sample.
The microhardness measurements show that the microhardness values in the transformed bands were higher than that of the deformed bands and original sample because of strain hardening and grain refining.
