His chief liability now could be this U-turn, after months of insisting that he was not prime ministerial material.
Since the yeast strain S288c was used for the sequencing project, it was clear that the same genetic background should be used for the yeast deletion collection, despite its liabilities, chief among them being its reputation for poor sporulation.
In his comments to the press after the meeting, Hilton said there was "no company out there knocking on our doors" and that there have been "no negotiations whatsoever". Asked if the company was interested in selling individual properties, the chief executive said tax liabilities attached to such a sale would be a deterrent.
Sunnylake's legal counsel tells Paul, "Literally every second is a liability". The chief of staff is in a mutinous fury.
"The city and its contractors have an array of powerful defenses to these claims and do not admit any liability," the chief lawyer for the city, James E. Tyrrell Jr., said in a statement on Friday.
"The Americans want to kick the conversation down the road because they're terrified of anything that suggests liability," Nick Mabey, chief executive officer of E3G, a London-based non- profit group that promotes sustainability, said in an interview.
If one considers that the financial crisis was the result of management hubris and a lack of shareholder oversight, small investors ought to be treated like an asset, not a liability that chief executives want to get rid of.Jerome Pinzuti Brussels* SIR – It is correct to say that weak economic growth is the underlying cause of share buy-backs, but the driving force behind this lies elsewhere.
He wants his firm to act as a sort of personal chief financial officer, looking at liabilities as well as assets and at spending as much as saving.
"Those buildings require major renovations and contain tremendous environmental liabilities," said Kevin Corbett, chief operating officer for the Empire State Development Corporation, which sells surplus state properties.
Illinois's prison chief, who became a political liability to Gov. Patrick J. Quinn because of a secret prisoner release program he oversaw, is stepping down, the governor said Thursday.
