As the company, which is based in Chicago, bleeds billions of dollars each year and tries to avoid issuing itself a ticket to bankruptcy court, its unions have only grudgingly considered management's cost-cutting demands.
What results is a transcontinental shower of sound that seems to issue from heaven itself, like the edicts of the Wizard of Oz.
President Bush's 2007 budget shows, for instance, that it's four times as expensive for the government to subsidize and guarantee private loans as for it to issue those loans itself.
Osmond said the size of his firm's all-cash offer would more than offset any tax advantage to Allied shareholders of accepting Whitbread's proposal: Whitbread is offering to issue shares in itself to pay for the pubs, avoiding capital gains tax.
Still suffering from the trauma of having lost the Vietnam War, the U.S. could barely bestir itself to issue the occasional boilerplate expression of concern and condemnation.
Yet, our government has found itself unwilling to issue any condemnation of the Iranian authorities responsible.
As the markets tightened, Sallie Mae found itself unable to issue commercial paper to cover some of its debt.
At the end of the day, the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and the EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton (who acts as convenor for the six-nation group) are expected to issue a joint statement - itself a rare event at such meetings - and presumably announce plans for a follow-up session in a week or two.
The biggest damage, however, was done to the issue itself: it invited politicians of all colours to stage yet another disproportionate skirmish about the exact size of the budget, exacerbated by calls for scrapping existing rebates or granting new ones.
The Supreme Court has been empowered to issue writs, namely habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto, for the enforcement of the Fundamental Rights, while the High Courts have been empowered under Article 226 – which is not a Fundamental Right in itself – to issue these prerogative writs even in cases not involving the violation of Fundamental Rights.
