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...same time, Ford Credit will begin a $1.3 billion cash tender offer to purchase certain series of Ford's outstanding unsecured, nonconvertible debt and has also begun a separate $500 million cash tender offer to purchase Ford's senior secured term loan debt. Ford will also defer interest payments on another class of convertible preferred...
...arrest warrant simply because it disputes the results of the investigation it authorized. Once the ICC’s pre-trial chamber issues the indictment, the onus falls on the Security Council to act. The Court cannot enforce its own arrest warrants. The council, however, can either choose to defer the prosecution for a year under Article 16 of the Rome Statute, or it can act to enforce...
Whatever Blair's personal biases and inclinations are, as long as the U.S. remains in Iraq and Afghanistan, fighting two wars that have neither been won nor lost, he will have no choice but defer to the Pentagon. You can't fight over money and people in the middle of hot wars. If the Pentagon says it needs sand samples, that's what the intelligence community...
...wouldn’t say we’re currently making decisions,” he said. “We’re trying to identify what costs we could potentially defer...
...formed to buy a signed copy of Gladwell’s book, some listeners talked about how much they appreciated the author’s perspective. Audience member Riches Anne Constable, who shares Gladwell’s Jamaican heritage, noted that his point about Jamaicans’ tendency to defer to superiors had manifested itself in her own life. “I often find myself giving deference,” she said...