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Other files among the tranche, which records events up to 1951, reveal how a male MI6 officer was arrested in Madrid wearing women's clothes, how MI6 paid huge amounts of money to agents to keep Spain out of the second world war, and how MI6 was prepared to "liquidate " selected individuals after the war.
The new bid is dependent on Rangers' administrators being able to agree a company voluntary arrangement with creditors, thereby avoiding the need to liquidate the club.
His public relations skills brought him into the inner sanctum of the Vanguard founder, Bill Craig, who became infamous for suggesting it might be necessary to "liquidate the enemy".
And Mr Immelt may find it easier than expected to liquidate in 36 months America's seventh-largest bank, with $500 billion of assets.
Mr Dugan also opposes the FDIC's push for sole authority to liquidate failing non-banks, as it already does with banks.Worse, there is no consensus on the proposed systemic-risk regulator, which would identify and act on emerging "macro-prudential" dangers.
Moreover, having pushed through a particularly expensive and unpopular scheme to liquidate seven jusen, or mortgage companies, last year, the government does not feel it can come up with yet another rescue package at the taxpayer's expense.So credit risk is becoming an issue, and IBJ's ability to borrow at dirt-cheap rates is waning.
For all the government's tough talk and Kim Dae Jung's televised speech on August 15th in which he claimed he would be the first South Korean president to dare to reform the chaebol, neither government nor banks plan to liquidate a single Daewoo company, for fear of rising unemployment.
And Joaquín Almunia, the EU's competition commissioner, has said that Spain may need to liquidate one of its bailed-out banks.Unlike the governments which oversaw bail-outs in Greece, Ireland and Portugal, all of which were booted out soon thereafter, Mr Rajoy is not in serious political danger.
To a large extent they managed to do just this, but did central bankers turn out to be a victim of their own success?Maybe we need a good painful recession every now and then to flush out the bad assets (perhaps Bernie Madoff would have been caught out earlier if more of his customers had been forced to liquidate seven years ago).
Mr Dugan also opposes the FDIC's push for sole authority to liquidate failing non-banks, as it already does with banks.
For example, Mr McCain would drop the requirement that seniors liquidate their retirement accounts at a certain age.
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The primary grammatical function of "liquidate" is as a transitive verb . It requires a direct object, such as "liquidate assets" or "liquidate a company". Ludwig AI confirms its role in indicating a process of converting assets into cash or terminating an entity.
Expression frequency: Very common
