"Universal Music pursued this case to send a strong message that copyrights will be protected and that copyright owners and artists need to be properly compensated for use of their work," said Zach Horowitz, president of Universal Music Group.
"Exploring and curating one's family past is both a timeless and universal hobby pursued by hundreds of millions of people around the world; I personally grew my own family tree to include more than 2,500 people," said BVP Partner Adam Fisher.
Vivendi made no secret of its desire to take control of SFR and had suggested that it would use cash it received from the sale of its stake in NBC Universal to pursue a deal with Vodafone.
Golf became a universal pastime, currently pursued by some 15 million devotees.
By contrast, when President Bill Clinton pursued universal health insurance in 1993 and 1994, the White House drafted a 240,000-word bill, insisted on many details and ended up with nothing.
With this simple language, Mondrian aimed to achieve something of a spiritual equilibrium with the arrangement of elements on the canvas, influenced by the mysticism of Theosophy, which pursued universal order.
To sum up, while the West has for so many years promoted the Western political model in the name of universal values, China has pursued its own experiments in the political domain since 1978, drawing lessons from the disastrous Cultural Revolution, in which ideological radicalism expunged China's governance traditions and dashed people's hope for prosperity and order.
Universal had been pursuing the Potter theme-park rights since 2002, when creative executives from Universal presented ideas to Warner on a Hollywood soundstage.
Universal health systems are unlikely to be feasible without increased domestic public funding, particularly if the goal of universalism is being pursued at the same time as scaling up ART interventions.
"We will pursue universal coverage," he said, "even if it reduces our company's income and strains relationships with our constituents".
