When the painting came on the market, he persuaded the museum's board that it was a now-or-never transaction.
So while, for instance, the U.K. market has (arguably over-) keenly adopted credit cards, other European markets aren't so in thrall to the never-never — making debit transaction a more standard payment method in those markets.
The transaction never occurred.
According to industry statistics, 90 percent of those who begin the search to buy a business never complete a transaction.
Cuban said the transaction never would have occurred had the company not been willing to do it over the Internet.
The transaction never took place, and Mr. Yousef was eventually arrested and imprisoned in Honduras on separate charges.
"There has never been a transaction that Mr. Scrushy was involved in when he didn't have inside information," he said.
He said he was satisfied with the terms of the transaction; never wanted a piece of SNY, the Mets' cable network, which other bidders demanded; and sounded untroubled by the team's financial problems and its long stewardship under Fred Wilpon, in which good seasons have often been overshadowed by disastrous ones.
If, at the end, the change never happens, the transaction is canceled.
So you'll never see any Transaction Fee funds (so-called because investors must pay to buy them) from fine outfits like Vanguard, Longleaf, Northeast, Meridian and Berwyn.
Bob Lord, CISO of Yahoo who has been beset with "got a minute?" sales calls pleads, "Never pitch a transaction.
