Jeffrey Sprecher, the chief executive of ICE, said the merger would enable the combined companies to be the "premier global exchange operator that remains a leader in market evolution".
But when the operator, Premier Cruises, could not get the air-conditioning going after two nights, it took everyone off in Boston and back to New York by bus.
Transocean is the premier builder and operator of deepwater drillships; shares are 70% off highs, trading at 3.5 times trailing earnings.
"Everything is much stricter than it ever used to be, and that makes it that much harder" to build, said Wayne Kaplan, the president of Premier Senior Living, an owner and operator of properties in New York, Ohio and Florida.
The company owns some premier assets, including Orange, Europe's second-largest wireless operator.
Sam Chisholm, the BSkyB boss who pulled off the purchase of Premier League rights, was similarly a blunt but effective operator.
WACKENHUT CORRECTIONS CORP., Boca Raton, Fla., a prison operator, said it would sell its 50percentt interest in Premier Custodial Group, an operator of prisons and youth-offender institutions in Britain, to Serco Group, Sunbury-on-Thames, England, a military contractor, for about $80 million.
New York remains the nation's premier racing circuit and would be attractive to proven racetrack operators.
The social services minister, Scott Morrison announced the review on Monday into online wagering operators, to be undertaken by Barry O'Farrell, the former New South Wales premier.
Ku6 claims it was the first Chinese video portal operator to delete pirated content posted by its users on its premier online brands, ku6.com and juchang.com, which it started doing in December 2009.
