Word: steps
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...financing of the deal is complicated and takes place in two steps. First, Commerzbank will pay Allianz $2.33 billion in cash, $4.94 billion in stock, and give the German insurer its asset management business Cominvest, which has a value of roughly $1 billion. Then, in a second step to take place by the middle of next year, Commerzbank will give Allianz another $4.58 billion in stock. In the end, Allianz will hold a 30% stake in Commerzbank, giving the insurance giant the opportunity to sell its insurance products over Commerzbank bank counters. And with Allianz as a major shareholder, Commerzbank...
...Then he takes a set break so everyone can step outside to smoke and watch the fireworks pop off above the adjacent field. When the finale comes, a burst of greens sizzlers, they cheer...
...Venerable" is not exactly what America expected, though, from a convention that took the strikingly original step of nominating the first African-American to lead a major party toward the White House. Obama entered this race and campaigned through the primaries on the strength of his own biography and promise - a new face offering new politics for a new era. But with little more than nine weeks remaining in the campaign, and the race extremely close, here he is running one of the oldest plays in the book...
...different are you from President Bush? Are you in step with your party? Are you independent from your party? My record shows that I have put my country first and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Sometimes that is not in keeping with the present Administration or my colleagues, but I've always put my country first, whether it's saying I didn't support the decision to go to Lebanon or my fighting against the corruption in Washington or out-of-control pork-barrel spending, which has led to members...
...whose ideas on conscience and faith have influenced Christian theology to the present day, is expected to be beatified next year, following the Vatican's recent certification of a Newman miracle - when a Boston man's cure from a crippling spinal disease could not be explained medically. The final step of canonization - full sainthood - will require proof of an additional miracle achieved through the intercession of Newman's spirit. The Vatican announced plans this month to move Newman's remains from a small grave site in the central English town of Rednal to a specially built sarcophagus in the Oratory...