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PAGE 4 Death Penalty Rejections Juries in federal trials chose not to impose the death penalty in 15 of the last 16 cases in which it was sought, according to a legal group.

Jay-Z's exit from the executive role comes after Universal, a division of Vivendi, declined to renew the contract under more lucrative terms he sought, according to people briefed on the talks, who requested anonymity because the negotiations were confidential.

Other companies that have had trouble raising money include the Williams Companies, which is aiming to raise $1.2 billion from its banks, $600 million less than what it had originally sought, according to the Loan Pricing Corporation.

Under the proposed contract, American estimated that its pilot costs would shrink by 17 percent, instead of the 20 percent it had initially sought, according to a letter sent by Denise Lynn, the airline's head of human resources, to employees.

And at Prudential Financial, the content of the programming and the demographics of the viewers were the drawing cards, along with price, which was "considerably lower than network TV and cheaper than some cable" for the audience that is being sought, according to Michael Hines, a senior vice president.

The tools being sought, according to the announcements, address issues of "data acquisition, archiving, querying, retrieval, visualization, integration and management".

What the board was seeking, according to the people with direct knowledge of the decision, was a person to improve the channel's programming voice.

A federal district judge dismissed most of the claims but ordered the department to release census data that the counties and cities were seeking, according to court documents.

Some representatives of the real-estate industry have expressed openness to raising the dollar limits for deregulating apartments, though not by nearly as much as the Assembly is seeking, according to people involved in the negotiations.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, however, said the ad had been bought by the Vitae Caring Foundation, which seeks, according to its Web site, to "reduce the number of abortions by using mass media education".

What the government is seeking, according to the official communique that was released after the Chequers cabinet at the beginning of September, is "controls on the numbers of people who come to Britain from Europe but also a positive outcome for those who wish to trade goods and services".