The effort to purchase one of his biggest competitors could signal that Murdoch feels that much of the pressure surrounding his business in the wake of the phone hacking scandal has abated.
Without them, News Corp. would be free to press its effort to purchase the entirety of British Sky Broadcasting, the dominant British satellite-television company, in which it owns a thirty-nine per cent stake.
Campaigns of billionaires like Donald Trump and a variety of wealth-backed candidates provide Robert Kuttner's "Everything for Sale" hypothesis a significant test in their effort to purchase the presidency of the United States.
Carl Amento, the mayor of Hamden, said the third section to be built should be finished later this year and that design work and efforts to purchase rights-of-way from private owners have already begun for the final stage that will connect central Hamden with New Haven to the south.
President Bush announces the discovery of Saddam Hussein's effort to purchase uranium in Africa.
Israeli officials have accused Mr. Arafat of involvement in an effort to purchase the weapons shipment, which they said was actively supported by Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
Shortly after the closure of most of Youngstown Sheet and Tube's area operations, local religious leaders, steelworkers, and activists such as Staughton Lynd participated in a grassroots effort to purchase and refurbish one of the company's abandoned plants in neighboring Campbell, Ohio.
One sign of Iraq's nuclear intentions was Baghdad's effort to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes, the report said.
Last month, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the city would purchase 7,000 body cameras to equip all of its police officers, a significant expansion on the LAPD's year-long effort to purchase some 800 cameras with private donations.
For nearly a year prior to the invasion, President Bush and his administration peppered the airwaves with serious accusations against Saddam Hussein, including claims of aluminum tubes that could be used in centrifuges to enrich uranium, and of Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium yellowcake from Africa.
