But at a three-and-a-half-hour meeting with analysts, company executives, including the chief executive, Antonio M. Perez, left, tried to assure analysts that by 2008, the digital business will be humming along, Kodak will have regained the investment grade credit rating it lost this year, and any revenue from its conventional film business will be a bonus.
I left to take a contract job, assured that the project would employ me for months.
He financed the construction of the observatory and the nearby Greek Theater and left enough money to assure that admission to the observatory would always be free.
She had opened the door and gone down the steps just once since Rich had died, to see that no lights had been left on, and to assure herself that the fuse switches were there, with labels written beside them to tell her which controlled what.
Several highly publicized incidents, involving the disappearance of money from the hotel rooms of Egyptian and Brazilian players, and the mugging of a few British rugby fans, also left organizers scrambling to assure that the World Cup would play out in a safe environment.
Claudia Polsky, deputy attorney general with the California Department of Justice's Environment Section, says the inability to publicly disclose ingredient information has left California unable to assure its residents that pesticides the state wants to use for various purposes are safe, resulting in lawsuits, injunctions, and protracted negotiations with pesticide manufacturers.
The mechanics rejected one concession package last Wednesday, leaving United unable to assure the air board that it could get all the $5.2 billion in concessions it had promised in recent weeks, but the union's leaders had tentatively approved a revised proposal.
The killing has left local officials scrambling to assure the public that White Plains, even as it grows, is not attracting big-city problems of violence, homelessness and racial conflict.
For instance, perhaps you are afraid that a mouse could enter your house and spread disease: Try leaving out humane traps to assure yourself that no mice are coming in.
The agency does not perform environmental impact assessments, leaving it to biotech companies to assure that their products won't cause harm.
