It would stop the flood of asbestos lawsuits, 200,000 in the last two years alone, that have strained businesses and the court system.
It would end the flood of asbestos lawsuits, 200,000 in the last two years alone, that have strained businesses and the court system.
Jones and Pfaff had a strained, business-only relationship, he said at the United States trials, and the disconnect showed at the Olympics.
The Ones Below has some plot issues: there is some strained business with a spare key — shades of Dial M For Murder, perhaps — and it isn't entirely clear why a banker as wealthy as Jon should live in a relatively modest flat.
Notwithstanding Mr. Obama's reputation for strained relations with business, some influential corporate leaders voiced optimism about the emerging approach that Mr. Geithner has told them privately he is preparing to release.
Yet proponents within the administration and among some outside advisers say that Mr. Obama, by putting tax reform atop the national agenda, could seize an opportunity to take the offensive in dealing with the newly empowered Republicans in Congress, repair his strained relations with business and embrace a potentially powerful theme heading into his re-election campaign.
Mr Daley's appointment was broadly welcomed at the time as a positive move that would help repair the White House's strained relations with business (Mr Daley is a former commerce secretary), but he struggled amid last year's rancour over the budget.
With fourth quarter results among U.S. banks showing another strained three months for trading businesses, and euro zone debt troubles still unresolved, headhunters and bankers have been predicting for weeks that cuts would continue well into 2012.
Alas, though, relations today between the Obama administration and "business" are pretty strained.
CNN, in the afterglow of an election season of record ratings for cable news, is elbowing in on a new line of business: catering to financially strained newspapers looking for an alternative to The Associated Press.
Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Geithner insisted that those sanctions were starting to bite, pointing to Iran's strained economy and its trouble conducting business internationally.
