Mr. Buffett's bid may be among several for the Chicago-based company, which filed for bankruptcy protection in 1999 in the face of slumping sales tied to cheaper overseas imports and mounting debt.
But the MoD has rejected all appeals to stop giving the drug to troops posted overseas – to the mounting fury of relatives, politicians and retired military figures who fear it could be responsible for an epidemic of psychiatric illness in Britain's Armed Forces.
But after years of asbestos litigation, mounting overseas competition, rising energy prices and labor costs, the aluminum company filed for bankruptcy in 2002 and was liquidated.
Private equity arose in the midst of a floundering '70s economy, with mounting overseas competition and the dominance of large, in Brooks' language, "bloated and sluggish companies".
The producers are now considering mounting it overseas, in traditional theaters as well as concert arenas; Ms. Taymor is seeking a royalty from those profits based on her copyright claims.
The double bombing is not just the biggest joint counterterrorism investigation mounted overseas by American intelligence and law-enforcement agencies.
To take advantage of foreign research, companies must station high-quality people in overseas bases and mount a credible level of scientific effort.
Disney executives are also counting on the division to deliver hits that can be mounted overseas to help fuel international growth.
But there were other incentives to going on the Tonys broadcast, like highlighting the jubilant music and spirited energy in the show for theater producers in Europe and Asia, who might strike deals to mount overseas productions of the musical.
In the broadest historical view, it's difficult to definitively say what private equity did for the macroeconomy: Overseas competition still mounted, productivity lagged, and it did not prevent the hollowing out of manufacturing, or increasing income inequality.
