The Lockheed officials said that the company had offered to resolve the case by paying the government several million dollars, but that the State Department had rejected the offer, deeming it insufficient.
The offer was deemed too risky by most of the others, but Mr. Sargent jumped on the idea.
Some colleges whose licenses have been revoked did not try to meet the conditions, reluctant to offer certificates deemed inferior to degrees from universities.
For American progressives, the point of centralised federal control is so often to ensure that states considered backward in one way or another are not allowed to offer programmes deemed insufficient by enlightened technocrats.
The offer was deemed too low, and new bids will be collected this week, to be announced at the end of the month.In the case of Level 3, in return for their $500m, Mr Buffett and his partners will receive new subordinated debt paying annual interest of 9%, about half what the company's $5 billion of outstanding bonds return at secondary-market prices.
The former, which broadcasts the Premiership and has co-rights for the European Champions Cup with Sky, did not respond while the latter's offer was deemed to be too low to justify the public outrage, and potential damage to the growth of the sport, that would follow taking the Six Nations off free-to-air television.
"Unless we receive an offer we deem appropriate, the terms of his contract will be enforced.
We hypothesized that accurate radiographic restaging, multimodality treatment, and advanced surgical technique can offer patients deemed unresectable at previous exploration the possibility for curative salvage pancreatectomy.
The satellite group's original bid of £575 million – initially thought to be their final offer – was deemed too low by two members of United's board (chairman Martin Edwards and Professor Sir Roland Smith), who pressed for a higher figure.
The initial price Collins Stewart offered was deemed too low, he said.
