LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland faces a delay in reaching a settlement over its role in the Libor interest rate rigging scandal because of difficulties agreeing a deal wi t h all the regulators involved, finance industry sources said.
It has become obvious that BP shamefully failed to oversee its dangerous deepwater drilling operation adequately – but also that it was badly let down by contractors carrying out crucial work, including Halliburton and rig operator Transocean, whose staff had switched off fire alarms on the ill-fated rig because of false alarms in the night.
Tribological properties of polymer materials are traditionally tested on small-scale test rigs because of cost-efficiency and flexibility.
3,000 workers evacuated their oil rigs because of Jeanne's high waves.
RIG-I-ΔCARD could then act as a dominant-negative inhibitor of RIG-I because of its ability to bind viral RNAs and oligomerize with wt RIG-I, but this mixed oligomer would not activate IPS-1.
We concentrated on RIG-I because of its participation in the interferon feedback loop, because DDX58 induction averaged over the cell population occurs unexpectedly earlier than IFNB1 induction, and because in the model it appeared reasonable to assume that the distribution of RIG-I across single cells provides the variability that differentiates early from late responders.
RBS is braced for scrutiny of its pay deals following last year's £400m fine for rigging foreign exchange markets and because of outstanding payments that were promised to chief executive Stephen Hester when he left in 2013.
Kendra Barkoff, a spokeswoman for the Interior Department, declined to answer questions about the casings, the blowout preventer and regulators' oversight of the rig because those matters are part of a continuing investigation.
But Representative Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, pointed out that the moratorium did not apply to the vast majority of rigs because they are already in production.
"I thought of rigging up a sling," she said, "but after watching a couple of videos on YouTube, I knew that wouldn't work, because of the squirrels".
