But we have near confirmation that they recently turned down an $8 billion valuation simply because the investor wanted a board seat.
The near confirmation of an iPhone 6S Mini may prop things up in the short term, but if losing the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 alienates enough users (and there are already petitions against its removal) the move could backfire in spectacular style.
It's official, after days of near-confirmations: Barbra Streisand is coming home to Brooklyn to perform at the new Barclays Center arena at Atlantic Yards in October.
Add this streamlined process to the message from the voters (and this week's near-confirmation that the revered Thomas Jefferson was a dissembling fornicator), and perhaps the president will wriggle free from his troubles sooner rather than later.Or perhaps not.
(In contrast, Nixon's October 1971 appointment of Lewis F. Powell, Jr., to another court vacancy won near-unanimous confirmation).
Another bill nearing final legislative approval would force Cooper's cabinet choices to be subject to senate confirmation.
Panetta said during his confirmation hearings last month that Al Qaeda had been severely damaged, but he has not claimed before that it was nearing defeat.
— President Trump on Thursday mocked former Senator Al Franken for folding "like a wet rag" and quickly resigning last year in the face of sexual misconduct allegations — an extraordinary statement as the president's Supreme Court nominee nears a vote in a confirmation process rocked by such accusations.
"We are not Democrats and Republicans in how we go about it, and in nine years I've never seen any political issue like that arise between us". He worried that the near-party-line confirmation of "somebody as eminently qualified as our newest member," Kagan, could suggest that people perceive the court, too, as a political body.
Investors had been optimistic when trading of Ambac Financial Group was halted near midday, expecting confirmation the long-awaited bailout of the bond insurer by a consortium of banks.
