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REUTERS EMI Dealsls Come Under Scrutiny  |  Citigroup's deals to split EMI would reduce the number of major players in the music industry to three from four and give Universal and Sony advantages over Warner Music, The New York Times reports.

Page B1 PACT TO SPLIT MUSIC COMPANY The pair of deals to split EMI between Sony and Universal would give those companies substantial advantages over Warner, the only other major player still in the market.

Last year, Citigroup reached a pair of deals to split EMI — a British company with roots dating to 1887 — between Sony and the Universal Music Group, with Universal offering $1.9 billion for EMI's record labels.

Last year, Citigroup reached a pair of deals to split EMI — a British company with roots dating to 1887 — between Sony and the Universal Music Group, with Universal offering $1.9 billion for EMI's record labels (which includes the Beatles' recordings).

In May, the Warner Music Group was sold to Access Industries, a conglomerate controlled by the Russian-born billionaire Len Blavatnik, and in November Citigroup reached deals to split EMI — home to the catalogs of the Beatles, Coldplay and Katy Perry — between Sony and the Universal Music Group.

In March they reached a deal to split profits with the UK, and took coins worth £250m to the US.

The two negotiated a deal to split the cost for 10 nude muslin dresses, which might later be sold as "Bodkin for Monique Péan".

It was settled by a dubious deal to split the eight-year term between a Dutchman, Wim Duisenberg, and a Frenchman, Jean-Claude Trichet.Such a record fills one with foreboding over the choice of the first EU president.

"You've got to remember that 100 years ago, no one thought that each municipality would have to provide so many services, so it was no big deal to split off and have your own town," Mr. Hughes said.

State officials celebrated what they described today as an agreement on a landmark deal to split California's share of Colorado River water, even though a crucial water agency had yet to approve it.

Facing an immediate and serious shortfall in its housing budget, Shetlanders now want both the UK and Scottish governments to compromise by doing a deal to split the debt three ways, but both governments are shifting the blame and responsibility on the other.