Kraft, which first announced its intention to bid for Cadbury in September last year, when it made its first claims about Somerdale, could have taken "mitigating action" to reverse its statement after meeting Cadbury's management on 18 and 19 January, the panel said.
In private, it is less gloomy, conceding that the union nearly always pitches its first claim at around twice what it actually expects to get.There could be room for manoeuvre in other fields, too.
ACCURACY Much of the ad is false, including its first claim.
His collection was bought by public subscription for the brand new Metropolitan Museum and provided a starry-eyed institution with its first claim to international prominence.
Britain is celebrating the centenary of its first claim to Antarctica by demanding a million square kilometres of the south Atlantic ocean bed.
But in a new development late Saturday, the military wing of Hamas, the group that rules Gaza, took credit for firing four rockets at the Israeli town of Ofakim, its first claim of participation in this round of violence.
With this spinning plastic creature, the Red Lobster chain staked its first claim in Manhattan yesterday, opening a three-story restaurant at the corner of 41st Street and Seventh Avenue.
Greggs was established in Tyneside in 1964 and one of its first claims to fame was reviving the stottie cake'" – a traditional, flat, loaf popular among Geordies, but less so south of the Watford Gap.
One of its first claims to fame was as a hub for a mining frenzy that preceded even the iron ore boom: the Western Australian gold rush of the 19th century.
Shares of the Yukos oil company slid 17percentt after the Russian government demanded $3.8 billion in back taxes, its first claim in at least six months, renewing concern that President Vladimir V. Putin will seize the company's remaining assets.
