He had earlier assured Ukrainians that he would honour the loan regardless of who was in power.Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief who is being tried for war crimes, was called to testify in the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, at a court in The Hague.
Mr Schröder, who has been bending over backwards to mollify the Americans since taking a virulent anti-war stance during the election campaign, had earlier assured the Americans that they could have unrestricted use of both, though he again ruled out any active German participation in such a war.
Public authorities and councils earlier assured the group that the odour on the Bayer CropScience site was no threat.
The business has been a victim of America's poorly performing markets.Renault's profits rose in 2002, to euro2 billion ($1.9 billion), after a strong performance at Nissan, its part-owned Japanese carmaker.Philips made a record loss of euro3.2 billion ($3.0 billion) in 2002, despite earlier assuring investors that it would return to profit after a mammoth loss in 2001.
People with claims had to decide whether to accept an early, assured payment from the fund or take their chances in the courts, possibly facing legal hardball tactics, delays and the risk of losing.
While the earlier assures the correct detection of a sample having a certain property, the later describes the ability to not detect samples not having this property, i.e. a certain disease.
We agreed that this was certainly the case, but she shook her head and, putting on an uncharacteristically sour expression, said, "No, we say, he deserved it," as if she were speaking of Robespierre and the guillotine; after all, this was the woman who earlier had assured us, with a benign smile, that the living members of the Académie française were "all dead".
Comparison with earlier models assured a realistic representation of the key factors related to demography, HIV and male circumcision status as well as the cost of the intervention.
"Machaca bite best early," Arias assured me.
But his early work assured him a permanent audience.
Resting early, he assured himself that he would be around to try.
