Sentence examples for straight exchange from inspiring English sources

Nokia is buying Alcatel in a straight exchange of 0.55 "new Nokia" shares for one in Alcatel-Lucent.

This was a straight exchange, since the uranium had a commercial value that could be translated into fuel rods.

When buying things in a straight exchange of money for goods, people often respond to changes in price in exactly the way that theoretical economics predicts.

About a month ago, the source said, the Red Sox offered the Mets Hillenbrand in a straight exchange for Benitez and were rebuffed.

So, too, did the straight exchange of a left-arm paceman Wahab Riaz for a right-armer, Sohail Khan, hitherto a bowler with a single Test wicket in a two‑match career and an absence from the national side of five years.

Her for me — a straight exchange.

A few operators like Henry Silverman at Cendant are leveraging their balance sheets to do deals, but what we're seeing mostly is mergers of equals like Citicorp and Travelers, which are straight exchanges of stock.

Why bother with all the time and expense of hiring a bunch of intellectuals to occupy some expensive piece of Washington real estate and hammer out policy positions — when you can go out and make a straight cash exchange for a candidate?

A second baseball official said the Dodgers had no interest in the trade, which Newsday reported yesterday as a potential straight-up exchange involving Brown and pitcher Jeff Weaver, who has struggled mightily as a Yankee.

We need to control data governance by managing and securing all data exchange straight off the starting block, before it's too big to fit back in its box.

He lies around the house, drinking and hiding behind his Mosley Tribes sunglasses until he's called on it by his sixteen-year-old daughter, Julie Danielle Panabakerr, a more willowy Judy Garland), in an exchange straight out of "The O.C .: JULIE: Look, Dad, after the whole Dina Brock thing, it makes perfect sense for you to punish yourself out of guilt.