The move into Brazil fits with the strategy of Vivendi's chief executive, Jean-Bernard Lévy, of seeking growth in emerging markets.
In contrast to executives of companies seeking limits on the gases, people representing companies opposed to restrictions, including Exxon Mobil and many coal companies, said they thought that their message was resonating.
The provision, blocked by Judge Stefan R. Underhill of Federal District Court, would have required the executives of companies seeking state contracts to disclose the names of their children on a Web site to ensure that the executives do not make illegal campaign contributions through their dependents.
The company, in a filing with the S.E.C., said reductions reflect a pattern of malfeasance in which "account balances were reviewed, sometimes at the request of senior executives, with the goal of seeking adjustments so that quarterly objectives could be met".
In its response Dell also said: "The investigation found evidence that … account balances were reviewed, sometimes at the request or with the knowledge of senior executives, with the goal of seeking adjustments so that quarterly performance objectives could be met.
But Hachette's chief executive, Michael Pietsch, accused Amazon of seeking more profit and market share "at the expense of authors, bricks and mortar bookstores, and ourselves".
The company suspects the three executives of having sought to pass on data related to its electric vehicle program.
The suit contends that executives of AOL sought to disguise the deterioration of their business during 2000, between the announcement and completion of the merger, while the directors of Time Warner failed to adequately investigate AOL's true condition.
Eight of the 24 members of FIFA's executive committee have now been accused of seeking or accepting bribes in return for their World Cup votes.
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