Word: consented
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...selling the company to Bank of America (BAC). Thain became enmeshed in the controversy over whether he properly disclosed Merrill's fourth quarter financial condition and if he was involved in paying Merrill executives bonuses that should not have been paid without Bank of America's consent. AIG (AIG) may be the example that best makes the case. As the company, which has been the world's premier insurance firm posted greater and greater losses on its derivative investments, the board pushed out Martin Sullivan in favor of Robert Willumstad in June 2008. Willumstad was clearly at least partially responsible...
...Terry Sanderson, the society's president, says the group started the online de-baptism initiative five years ago to mock the practice of baptizing infants too young to consent to religious rites. Their web site invites visitors to "Liberate yourself from the Original Mumbo-Jumbo that liberated you from the Original Sin you never had" and allows them to print out a paper certificate that uses quasi-formal language to "reject baptism's creeds and other such superstitions." But in recent months, as tens of thousands began to download the certificate, organizers realized that they had struck a chord with...
...first in which this is not an entirely rhetorical question. With the bizarre public spectacle of Big Brother star Jane Goody’s death, the idea of a funeral webcast over MySpace seems ever closer.The lifting of the ban is clarified with a clause that necessitates familial consent to film and photograph. This concession to privacy gives me hope that the lifting of the ban is a step forward instead of one backwards. Perhaps it will be those families who say “no” to the media that will truly catch the attention of an America...
...dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?' PAUL JACOBS, of Broughton, England, an affluent village where residents, citing potential security risks, blocked a Google car from taking pictures for the search engine's Street View project...
...President Barack Obama recently decided to send 17,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan in the hopes of stopping the Taliban's momentum. But the limited reinforcements made available by the Europeans - and the restriction to noncombat roles in order to win the consent of Europe's mostly antiwar electorates - have raised questions about the purpose of the Alliance. "NATO lost its credibility when it refused to commit the resources needed," says Barkawi. After several appeals by then President George W. Bush for more combat troops from Europe failed to secure significant reinforcements, the Obama Administration has made clear that...