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WALL STREET JOURNAL   Bank of America Withheld Loss Projections Before Merrill Vote  |  Days before Bank of America shareholders approved the acquisition of Merrill Lynch in December 2008, bank executives were told of looming losses at Merrill, but shareholders were kept in the dark, according to court documents filed on Sunday, The New York Times reports.

At a retreat in March, 100 top Microsoft executives were told to think of new ways that machine learning could be used in their businesses.

Patrick J. Burke, the head of the Continental pilots' union, said that union leaders at other airlines who had been briefed by executives were told to expect staff cuts of 15percentto20percentcent.

Another former executive, a senior vice president who insisted on remaining anonymous, said that at the end of December, she and other executives were told to plan to dismiss 20percentt of their employees.

At least one news executive was told of the plan by his reporter in advance.

The F.B.I. affidavit said the hospital's chief executive was told of at least one patient's concerns last June.

Robert A. Iger, Disney's chief executive, was told of the plan on Thursday after the company's general counsel signed off on it.

Documents show that senior executives were told the calculations of reserves were too high in 2002, at least two years before the company downgraded its estimate this January.

At the Time Inc. unit of AOL Time Warner, executives were told after the merger of America Online and Time Warner that their long-term incentive program would be replaced with options.

The executives were told that if any of their companies stepped up shipments to another country instead, allowing reshipment of rare earths from that country to Japan, then the company would lose its export license.

The implants were recalled in 2010, but the documents show that as early as 2008 DePuy executives were told by a number of surgeons, including its own consultants, that the device appeared flawed.