For Kim, the letters are a way to buy time.
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The fact that Meredith is trying to buy Time Inc.
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It would buy time for an establishment that might need it.
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So while the ban is only temporary, it does buy time.
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The smart money is that they'd use it to buy time.
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It's the third known attempt by Meredith to buy Time Inc.
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One has to purchase a little card to buy time online.
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But its attempt to buy Time Warner in 2014 had failed.
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You tried to buy Time Warner a couple of years ago.
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It would also buy time to pursue a more ambitious agreement.
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They believe that her legal team is trying to buy time.
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To increase its scale, Fox tried to buy Time Warner Inc.
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That explains AT&T's agreement to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion.
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"They can buy time to ride out the intense craving," she says.
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I didn't realize two weeks ago I was going to buy Time.
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"The purpose of the fence is to buy time," said Officer Lawson.
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Maybe enough bullets to buy time, to let the local police respond.
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The purpose of the GoFundMe, Delli-Bovi said, is to buy time.
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A transition period, initially of two years, will buy time to agree details.
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The TMC may think it can buy time and grind down the protesters.
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They need high prices to buy time to wean their economies off oil.
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In the year 2000, AOL agreed to buy Time Warner for $165 billion.
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Such a strategy would also buy time to see what new technologies emerge.
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AT&T has reached a deal to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion.
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N, to buy time to get the required regulatory approvals for the deal.
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The Koch cash fueled what was Meredith's third attempt to buy Time Inc.
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For instance, people who buy time could simply be wealthier, and therefore happier.
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The following year, Meredith Corporation, a media conglomerate, announced plans to buy Time.
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The idea was to buy time and give the Afghan government a chance.
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"We were trying to buy time to have a Taser," Officer McElligott said.
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October 2016: AT&T agrees to buy Time Warner for about $85.4 billion.
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The purpose would not be to reach an agreement but to buy time.
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I mean, I can buy anything I want, basically, but I can't buy time.
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The issue is particularly relevant now because Charter plans to buy Time-Warner Cable.
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Some clinics buy time with puberty-blockers, which suppress the action of sex hormones.
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In 2015-16 Mr Maduro used talks to buy time and divide the opposition.
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Martin has concocted many of his characters to buy time for his primary story.
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Here's why AT&T decided to buy Time Warner, according to CEO Randall Stephenson.
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A grand coalition could buy time for economic growth to heal some social scars.
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Earlier this month, AT&T announced it would buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion.
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Mr. Fustolo tried to buy time through the bankruptcy courts to reorganize the business.
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In that moment, Whillans thought about her own research on how to buy time.
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Then in 613, Comcast reached a $45 billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable.
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A couple years ago, Murdoch was trying to buy Time Warner to get bigger.
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AT&T announced this last weekend it wants to buy Time Warner for $85 billion.
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Because he was acquisitive, acquisitive, acquisitive, wanted to buy Time Warner a couple years ago.
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That would buy time for DACA recipients facing the expiration of deferrals and work permits.
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Bouteflika ran out of options as he became increasingly isolated and failed to buy time.
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These investments continue to reduce our risk and make us less vulnerable and buy time.
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This is why Comcast bought NBCUniversal, and why AT&T wants to buy Time Warner.
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That said, the Trump administration's DOJ held up AT&T's effort to buy Time Warner.
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"We will do bolt-on acquisitions in health if necessary to buy time," he said.
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Or perhaps because I'm trying to buy time before getting to the story of Tova?
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When AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner for $85 billion last month, Warner Bros.
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Barclays tickets start at $523 and will buy time with Chaka Khan and Cyndi Lauper.
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Chinese negotiators have also tried to buy time and hedge against Mr. Trump's changing whims.
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Is the regime trying to buy time to prolong its rule by making empty promises?
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First one is, if Judge Leon rules you can't buy Time Warner, what's plan B?
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That's true for the approval of AT&T's $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, too.
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Heck, even Donald Trump weighed in saying AT&T shouldn't be allowed to buy Time Warner.
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"The fear they have is that this is something that is signed just to buy time."
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff will buy Time Magazine for $190 million.
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And AT&T got the go-ahead to buy Time Warner, overcoming an federal antitrust challenge.
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BUT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS SAID AT&T CAN GO AHEAD AND BUY TIME WARNER.
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The administration was following through on penalties after earlier granting exemptions to buy time for negotiations.
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But when people of all income levels use money to buy time, that time stress disappears.
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AT&T reached an agreement to buy Time Warner for more than $85 billion last October.
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In October, AT&T reached an agreement to buy Time Warner for more than $85 billion.
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When AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner for $85 billion, the deal immediately encountered skepticism.
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In the United States, the AT&T plan to buy Time Warner is still causing consternation.
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Murdoch understood this impulse: in 27, 22017st Century Fox had tried, unsuccessfully, to buy Time Warner.
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Starting talks to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions would defuse the current crisis and buy time.
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Charter is hoping to dodge the fate of Comcast's ill-fated attempt to buy Time Warner.
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GOP mega-donors Charles and David Koch are reportedly backing a deal to buy Time Inc.
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AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner, Verizon is in the midst of buying Yahoo.
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AT&T structured its $85 billion deal to buy Time Warner to avoid such a review.
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But eventually, right, you're going to have a Roseanne Barr issue if you buy Time Warner.
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But the real point is this is a speaking indictment meant to buy time for Bob Mueller.
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So our priority has been having money, and then using the money to, in effect, buy time.
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Another strategy is to repeat the question and speak slowly to buy time and create a story.
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It can disrupt jihadists and buy time to win back the allegiance of the disgruntled and marginalised.
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AT&T plans to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion, making it the new owner of HBO.
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They decide to buy time, even though the man that Rick has captured is Primo, their doctor.
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Remember, North Korean regimes have repeatedly used talks and empty promises to extract concessions and buy time.
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But investors were doubtful that the biggest deal, AT&T's agreement to buy Time Warner, will happen.
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This is, of course, a transparent attempt by Moore to both buy time and muddy the waters.
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The Department of Justice is suing to block AT&T's $85 billion deal to buy Time Warner.
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Start with HBO, which is the main reason AT&T spent $85 billion to buy Time Warner.
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Matt: I think he wants to buy time, clean out bad execs, and work on digitizing things.
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But I feel lucky, because I am the owner of my time, and you cannot buy time.
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That initial silence fed cautions that he was raising premature optimism, or perhaps strategizing to buy time.
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Mr. Benioff said his decision to buy Time was motivated by a desire to preserve the title.
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Rather, she sees it as a way for nations to buy time to make bigger economic shifts.
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Some Russia hawks are starting to wonder whether both issues are an excuse to buy time, however.
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Charter spent more than $65 billion last year to buy Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.
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That includes AT&T, which Trump as a candidate blasted for its bid to buy Time Warner.
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AT&T announces in October 2016 that it has an agreement to buy Time Warner, which owns CNN.
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AT&T, America's fifth-biggest firm by profits, wants to buy Time Warner, the second-biggest media firm.
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With private stations, NASA could buy time and space on these modules to continue doing tests in microgravity.
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October 22 - AT&T announces an $85 billion deal to buy Time Warner, the parent company of CNN.
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They believe Kim is trying to draw Trump into a lengthy negotiation process in order to buy time.
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Claire's completed an out-of-court debt restructuring last year to buy time to help improve its finances.
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It's one thing for AT&T to say it wants to spend $86 billion to buy Time Warner.
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Apparently, out of that lunch there was this idea that, hey, maybe AT&T should buy Time-Warner.
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They're moving toward a two-week stopgap measure to buy time to negotiate a long-term spending package.
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AT&T wants to buy Time Warner — which means that some media allies may soon become media competitors.
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Congress also needs to act and buy time for the crisis to stabilize and the economy to restart.
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And of course, in a blockbuster $923 billion deal last fall, AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner.
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Foes accuse President Nicolas Maduro of exploiting dialogue to buy time, while he says the opposition prefers violence.
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That could shield the company from excessive jury verdicts and buy time by putting a hold on the claims.
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AT&T has sealed the deal to buy Time Warner in a major piece of media and technology consolidation.
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The big question: What happens if the AT&T deal to buy Time Warner, his parent company, gets approved?
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Jeff Bewkes says Google and Facebook dominate digital ads, so letting AT&T buy Time Warner will provide competition.
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In fact, readers might recall that Accretive, along with Access Industries, made a spurned offer to buy Time Inc.
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Media stocks were under the spotlight after a court approved AT&T's $85 billion deal to buy Time Warner.
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So with huge energy in the party pushing for impeachment, leaders are using the congressional investigation to buy time.
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Additionally, the T-Mobile chief executive commented on AT&T's recent announcement of a deal to buy Time Warner.
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While investors were away enjoying their Saturday nights, AT&T announced a $85-billion deal to buy Time Warner.
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Today, NASA officially opened their call for commercial launch providers asking to buy time for research using reusable vehicles.
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Meredith, a publisher of domestic-lifestyle magazines, such as Better Homes & Gardens, agreed to buy Time Inc for $2.8bn.
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Professional risk managers are among those pushing Congress to extend the program beyond September to buy time for reforms.
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That would buy time to assess the progress of other clean technologies, such as battery storage and carbon capture.
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Media firms came in focus after AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion over the weekend.
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The BOJ decided to hold fire on Thursday and instead buy time with a tweak to its forward guidance.
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But Judge Richard Leon's ruling on Wednesday that AT&T could buy Time Warner without conditions changed the calculus.
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Storch's exit underscored the board's attempt to "buy time and placate investors to address underperformance and undervaluation," Litt added.
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AT&T announced a deal in October to buy Time Warner for approximately $85 billion or $107.50 per share.
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That's meant to buy time for a wider analysis of cyber and physical vulnerabilities in the nation's electricity system.
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A similar sort of backlash helped derail Comcast's attempt to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion last year.
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AT&T is fighting in court to buy Time Warner and Disney has bid to buy most of Fox.
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That's the sort of person I might give the esketamine spray, to buy time until the standard treatment works.
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Mr Trump's tactical aim is to help the economy in an election year; China is happy to buy time.
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The Iraqi Joint Operations Command accused the Kurds on Wednesday of using the talks "buy time" to strengthen positions.
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They paid $190 million to buy Time from Meredith, which inherited the magazine with its purchase of Time Inc.
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The researchers found that, regardless of income level, spending money to buy time was associated with greater life satisfaction.
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He also rejected the idea that AT&T wants to buy Time Warner to withhold its content from competitors.
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Mr. Brown's strategy is to keep building, hoping to buy time until a (presumably) sympathetic Democratic administration takes office.
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Though facing mortality is hard, we don't buy time by making our deaths especially inconvenient to our loved ones.
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To buy time, I ask a question that I rarely ever asked at the height of my sexual addiction.
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And ultimately, these tools can buy time only until the political system delivers a broader policy response, which it hasn't.
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The deal is a coup for Meredith, which held unsuccessful talks to buy Time earlier this year and in 9.53.
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Learn why AT&T wanted to buy Time Warner - and why the deal is significant to both corporations and consumers.
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Expect plenty of public hearings and aggressive pushes for documents as Democrats look to buy time before the 2020 elections.
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AT&T reached a deal to buy Time Warner on Saturday for more than $85 billion, or $107.50 per share.
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"And regulators often agree, like when Comcast unsuccessfully tried to buy Time Warner Cable, a deal that I fiercely opposed. "
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And regulators often agree, like when Comcast unsuccessfully tried to buy Time Warner Cable, a deal that I fiercely opposed.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - For greater happiness in 2018, take a tip from a happiness researcher: Buy time instead of more stuff.
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What to watch: Taiwan's Caribbean campaign is likely to buy time as China continues making economic inroads across the region.
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The deal is a coup for Meredith, which held unsuccessful talks to buy Time earlier this year and in 2013.
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It could buy time, which those of us facing death ourselves or in our families would dearly love to have.
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Already there is chatter that another short-term continuing resolution (CR) may be needed to buy time for more negotiations.
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The company dropped its bid to buy Time Warner Cable last year under scrutiny from regulators, including at the commission.
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Less than two weeks ago AT&T proposed to buy Time Warner, a content company, for a stunning $85 billion.
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U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon said Tuesday that AT&T's $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner was legal.
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They are also what has helped to buy time for Mueller to complete his investigation before Trump can end it.
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"I didn't realize two weeks ago I was going to buy Time," he told The Times in a text message.
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While offsets can buy time, they can also lead to delays at a time when the world needs immediate action.
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Those actions are among those that may affect the Justice Department's review of the company's deal to buy Time Warner.
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Vargo figures that a Roth of several hundred thousand dollars would buy time or a more lavish lifestyle in retirement.
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The main goal of Kim Jong-un's meeting with Trump is first to buy time, and second, get sanctions relief.
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A federal judge ruled that AT&T can buy Time Warner — and didn't apply any restrictions or conditions to his decision.
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The only thing that would have derailed that would have been a ruling against AT&T's plans to buy Time Warner.
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For the second time in less than a year, a US court has ruled that AT&T can buy Time Warner.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - The telco firm prevailed against the DOJ and can now legally buy Time Warner for $85 bln.
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This move comes a day after a federal judge gave the green light to AT&T's plans to buy Time Warner.
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If they wanted to create their own content, there's a lot cheaper ways to create content than to buy Time Warner.
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In 2014, Twenty-First Century Fox offered to buy Time Warner for $86 a share, but Bewkes ultimately rejected that deal.
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In 2017 AT&T, which is trying to buy Time Warner, paid Michael Cohen, Mr Trump's personal lawyer, $600,000 for advice.
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Dialogue has divided the diverse opposition coalition, with some activists and politicians feeling the government was duping them to buy time.
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To buy time, the supervisor handed Stephens his 20-piece nuggets and told him his fries would take an extra minute.
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Among American workers, half had spent money to buy time, largely by relieving themselves of cooking, shopping and home maintenance tasks.
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They're not here to negotiate about a political transition, but they're here to buy time and commit more crimes in Syria.
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CNN has become the focal point in antitrust approval of AT&T's $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner Inc TWX.
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Bystander CPR generally won't restore a normal heart rhythm, but it can buy time by maintaining blood flow to vital organs.
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That would buy time to negotiate a more comprehensive deal, including a minutely sequenced road map that will require sustained diplomacy.
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We wonder if Fox tried to buy Time Warner again as they tried in 2014, could that deal actually be approved.
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Seventh Generation did not buy time for the ad on the fourth major broadcast network, Fox, or the cable news channels.
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Some of Seoul's allies are voicing concern Pyongyang may be using the talks to buy time to pursue its weapons program.
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Nonetheless, closings and rigorous screening may slow the spread, which will buy time for the development of drug treatments and vaccines.
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The defector, Thae Yong-ho, says that Mr. Kim is meeting with Mr. Trump to buy time and get sanctions relief.
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Last month, AT&T announced an $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, one of the largest proposed media mergers in years.
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Do you really want Rivers trying to buy time behind a bad offensive line as an integral part of the game plan?
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In the background, AT&T's already-closed US$85bn deal to buy Time Warner is being appealed by the Department of Justice.
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Many in the opposition scorn talks, after three attempts since 2014 that Mr Maduro used merely to buy time and sow division.
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Or we buy time and prepare for the real threat to our country and the American experiment of freedom: Russia and China.
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Flashman, faced with superior firepower in unsteady hands, would have smiled, made himself pleasant to his captors and tried to buy time.
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The union said the offer was an "unacceptable" attempt to divide workers in order to buy time ahead of the planned strike.
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AT&T was down 2.5 percent at $36.51 after the telecommunications company said it would buy Time Warner Inc for $85.4 billion.
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Sirisena had suspended Parliament for two weeks in a move Wickremesinghe's backers said was designed to buy time to shore up support.
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The company has agreed to buy Time Warner for $80 billion, creating one of the most powerful media companies in the world.
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"If they insist on indirect talks, they came here in Geneva just to waste time and buy time for Assad," he said.
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Yes, I understand it is supposedly meant to buy time to develop a better system to block terrorists from entering our nation.
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AT&T has reached a deal to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion as the telecom giant pushes into the entertainment industry.
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"They use negotiations to buy time," said Christopher R. Hill, who negotiated with North Korea for several years during the Bush administration.
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To buy time, he agreed to go, but that same night escaped with his passport to the United States Consulate in Nairobi.
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Something changed from 2014, when you were looking to buy Time Warner to now with you and your father deciding to sell.
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Under the leadership of Yayha Sinwar and Ismail Haniyah, Hamas has sought to buy time for its long game, without changing ideology.
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Mr. Murdoch tried to buy Time Warner in 2014 for $89 billion but dropped the effort after Time Warner spurned the offer.
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He'd watched as the ship slowed down, tacked west, and then executed a fishhook turn and steamed due north to buy time.
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Tadamichi Kuribayashi to his office and told him to defend Iwo Jima to the last man as a means to buy time.
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Making it hard for them to physically act may buy time for a change in the circumstances that led to the desire.
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But House leaders have been eyeing a vote next week on a two-week CR to buy time for a budget deal.
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The CEO of AT&T pledged Sunday that CNN will remain independent amid a deal to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion.
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AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner 13 months ago, but the deal has yet to be approved by U.S. antitrust regulators.
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The audits are a way to buy time for political accommodations and eventually to certify and add some credibility to a result.
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Afraid of reimporting a terrorist threat born on their shores, many governments have tried to buy time as a global peril mounts.
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It is like that film In Time where humans have timers on their hand and they have to buy time on Earth.
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AT&T wants to buy Time Warner, and Wall Street, predictably, obliged, sending Time Warner shares up and AT&T stock down.
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AT&T bought DirecTV for $48.5 billion in 2015 and is trying to buy Time Warner, the media company, for $85 billion.
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Second question, if you're able to buy Time Warner, you're going to end up working with the Roseanne Barrs of the world.
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The person harvesting the tree has to offer them woodlice, which they eat, in order to buy time to cut out a wand.
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The Trump administration has temporarily halted the practice, but it is seen as only a temporary fix to buy time for legislative change.
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Opposition parties rejected the proposal, calling it a ploy to buy time and avoid being impeached, and vowed to push ahead with impeachment.
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The stakes are even higher now that AT&T plans to buy Time Warner: the company that owns Game of Thrones and Batman.
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In doing so, they buy time to recalibrate the business or pivot to a new product, often requiring a different blend of employees.
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AT&T wants to buy Time Warner so that it can gear up for the brave new world that we're all heading toward.
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The Justice Department is believed to prefer significant asset sales in order to gain approval for AT&T's plan to buy Time Warner.
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News of the service's pricing comes days after AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner and its library of content for $86 billion.
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A 0% APR introductory offer on a credit card can buy time to pay off credit card debt without accruing any more interest.
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A drug that stopped hemorrhages during that window "would buy time so they don't die in the meanwhile, and save lives," she said.
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Capital markets are so well developed that AT&T can seek to borrow $40 billion to buy Time Warner without missing a step.
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AT&T – AT&T expressed interest in buying CBS before striking its deal to buy Time Warner, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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AT&T (T) expressed interest in buying CBS (CBS) before striking its deal to buy Time Warner, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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To buy time, Prime Minister May could ask to extend the withdrawal date, but she would face a huge revolt from her party.
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AOL's combined market value the day after it announced a $165 billion offer to buy Time Warner in 2000 was over $340 billion.
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As it sought the government's approval to buy Time Warner Cable last year, Charter Communications had said it planned to hire 20,000 employees.
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The move could buy time while Canada seeks to secure his clemency, but comes amid a widening diplomatic rift between the two countries.
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May's deal but otherwise maintained his ambivalence over Brexit as part of his strategy to buy time and come out ahead, observers said.
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They have warned that North Korea could simply be attempting to buy time as it continues to develop its nuclear and missile programs.
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Smith claims his intent was to "buy time" until he came up with a better plan to convince Kelly NOT to marry her.
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The experience did not surprise veteran cyberoperators, who have learned, through hard experience, that cyberweapons buy time but rarely are a permanent solution.
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Is there any reason to believe the pressure to maximize profits will decrease after AT&T spends $85 billion to buy Time Warner?
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Bill Clinton hoped by offering nuclear power assistance to North Korea, he could buy time to wean Pyongyang away from producing weapons plutonium.
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I just don't think we're going to shut down, but we're trying to buy time until there could be a larger spending package.
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But dialogue with Maduro is a nonstarter for many opponents, who accuse him of using previous negotiations to buy time and divide the opposition.
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Like IBM's other quantum computers, it's accessible only via the cloud, where companies and research institutes can buy time on the IBM Q Network.
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A new interim directive from NASA allows private companies to buy time and space on the ISS for producing, marketing, or testing their products.
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"Commisso made a bid and it's still there but it seems Li is trying to buy time," said a source familiar with the bid.
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The Justice Department is also assessing AT&T's controversial plan to buy Time Warner, owner of HBO, Warner Brothers and the news network CNN.
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He traced it back to when Fox tried to buy Time Warner for a bid of $85 per share, and Bewkes refused to negotiate.
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They plan to delay the repeal from going into effect for a couple of years to buy time to come up with a replacement.
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He ordered a 20-piece McNugget and a large fry ... but workers made it seem the fries weren't ready so they could buy time.
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After the NBC deal, Comcast also tried to flex its muscle to become a virtual broadband monopoly by trying to buy Time Warner Cable.
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Charter said in May it would buy Time Warner Cable, the fourth-largest U.S. cable company, in a $56 billion cash-and-stock deal.
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While PERA tries flicking switches and turning knobs to buy time, some states with similar problems have been taking bolder action to solve them.
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The credits also buy time to develop more viable zero-emissions cars, said Honda's Robert Bienenfeld, assistant vice president for energy and the environment.
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There is always a likelihood that the Taliban will use the process to buy time as its fighters press the war on the ground.
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The deal also includes another stopgap measure to buy time for budget writers to flesh out the details of the two-year spending deal.
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"We are not defending the barricade at all cost, we just need to buy time for those behind us to leave," shouts one. pic.twitter.
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The paper cites the prospect of new media deals following AT&T's successful court fight for approval of its deal to buy Time Warner.
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We need social distancing across the country, and we need to keep it in place for some weeks, if not months, to buy time.
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He was still in empire-building mode as recently as a few years ago when he made an aggressive bid to buy Time Warner.
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Why did AT&T buy Time Warner (which also included CNN, TNT and Warner Bros.) if not to jump-start its own streaming bundle?
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His gambit may be a ploy to buy time for the additional testing needed to acquire the capability to strike the continental United States.
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The Justice Department already failed to block AT&T's bid to buy Time Warner, and regulators now have another antitrust loss on their hands.
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None of this by itself will stop the disease, but it can buy time for doctors and nurses to treat those who fall ill.
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The problem is that while these measures probably were successful at helping the United States buy time, Trump didn't do anything with the time.
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What a surge could do is buy time for what ultimately has to happen — a political agreement between the Taliban and the Afghanistan government.
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" Beside the lack of stress, Cuban says the biggest benefit to having so much wealth is being able to "do things that buy time.
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Passengers flying coach could buy time in one of the sleeper berths to stretch out and take a nap during a long international flight.
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Some argue that Mr. Kim just wanted to use negotiations to buy time and ease international sanctions, never intending to abandon his nuclear weapons.
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Any deal with Comcast could run into the same regulatory problems that AT&T is currently facing in its attempt to buy Time Warner.
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They will need their sixth-ranked rushing game to buy time if they are to survive the franchise's first postseason game in 14 years.
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The next day Japan proposed a compromise extension of 30 days to buy time to find a way to ensure continuity of our work.
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The document paints a picture of an essentially fruitless negotiating process in recent months that is kept alive largely to buy time for Mrs.
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Skeptics view Kim's overtures as a duplicitous attempt to buy time, while others argue any real peace deal requires talking to the North Koreans.
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This "reverse spin" was seen as a sop to the market and an attempt to buy time for Ms. Mayer to enact another turnaround plan.
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AT&T agreed less than two weeks ago to buy Time Warner for more than $85 billion, a blockbuster deal that could face regulatory scrutiny.
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Anyway, did AT&T offer any innovative new ideas at trial about what they'd do to compete better with Netflix after they buy Time Warner?
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AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner last year for $85 billion in a transaction it has said it hopes to conclude by year's end.
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Barr had also recused himself from considering AT&T's plan to buy Time Warner, which the government opposed, because of his involvement with those companies.
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Any move now to retain van Kesteren may be calculated to buy time for Schmid to serve another year before resigning in 2017, Bohli said.
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Massachusetts' top court in 2017 ruled that state police cannot detain illegal immigrants solely to buy time for federal officials to take them into custody.
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The agreement has not created a permanent fix for Iran's search for a nuke, but it did buy time while heading off an immediate crisis.
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As we witnesses in other cases, Fucking FBI or other police enforcements, teach you couple of outdated trick to play with us and buy time.
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"Monetary and fiscal policies only buy time and what's important is to pursue structural reform," said Katsuya Okada, head of the main opposition Democratic Party.
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Sadly, with music festivals as with TV shows, the word "hiatus" is often used just to buy time, while executives scramble to find more money.
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The forecast of "three [or] four months" may have just been a ploy to buy time until Mr Trump had the Republican nomination sewn-up.
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Trump is pathetically trying to buy time on a blown promise, telling people that Obamacare will be repealed at an unspecified time in the future.
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Cost cutting and mega-deals may buy time, but to truly succeed consumer and retail giants have to realize that innovation is the path forward.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has requested a three-month extension to Brexit to buy time to get her twice-rejected divorce deal though parliament.
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FABER: ALRIGHT, SO A COMPETITOR LIKE AT&T WHICH OF COURSE RIGHT NOW IS ON THE CUSP POTENTIALLY OF BEING ABLE TO BUY TIME WARNER.
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Judge Richard Leon ruled that AT&T could buy Time Warner, rejecting the Justice Department's argument that the deal would reduce competition and hurt consumers.
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"I didn't realize two weeks ago I was going to buy Time," he told The Times in a text message, while he got a massage.
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Given the limited timeframe, Hoyer acknowledged that a stopgap will be necessary to buy time for the House and Senate to reconcile their appropriations bills.
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"These types of things allow him to buy time," she added, warning that it "could also backfire" if the votes did not go his way.
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So China's strategy has been to buy time — and preserve the status quo — with talks that may be linked to some kind of testing freeze.
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Some think he is trying to buy time and is also in cahoots with Iran, where he has been spending much of his time lately.
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Critics accused Trump of trying to give the Saudis diplomatic cover and buy time for them to get their story straight, something Trump's aides denied.
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" (AT&T has a market value of more than $220 billion, though its stock has dropped about 7 percent since news emerged of its plans to buy Time Warner.) Asked what AT&T would do if its effort to buy Time Warner, like its bid for T-Mobile, ended in tatters, he said: "I'm not even thinking about that, to be quite honest for you.
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The United States cannot prevent this — only mitigate it — and buy time for key parties to adapt their policies to help Iraq have a managed breakup.
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Various mediation efforts have failed in recent years: foes accuse President Nicolas Maduro of exploiting dialogue to buy time, while he says the opposition prefers violence.
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She shoved clothes under the door to help buy time and began handing the young children out a window to her husband one at a time.
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"The government of Japan sort of quasi-promises to maintain a weak yen in order to support and buy time for the export companies," Jakobsen said.
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Disney and Fox have given data to the Justice Department, which is using it to build a case against AT&T's bid to buy Time Warner.
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Image: APAT&T—the same people trying to buy Time Warner—announced Tuesday that it will be launching an online-only TV service dubbed DirecTV Now.
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Netflix's Reed Hastings could be looking at a new, behemoth of a rival, now that AT&T has agreed to buy Time Warner, parent to HBO.
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In other corporate news, AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner for more than $85 billion, while TD Ameritrade said its buying Scottrade for $4 billion.
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AT&T could boost returns by using its muscle in the pipes business to force clients to buy Time Warner's content rather than that of rivals.
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Some U.S. officials and experts worry North Korea could buy time to build up and refine its nuclear arsenal if it drags out talks with Washington.
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So, he&aposs ruling in favor of the AT&T/Time Warner merger, giving them the go-ahead for AT&T to buy Time Warner here.
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This is also a sign Trump may be willing to buy time and trust Congress to agree on legislation that he believes will strengthen the deal.
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It's a disconcerting scenario, but also one well worth considering now that AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner over the weekend for around $85 billion.
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Comcast is afraid of Google Fiber because it's afraid of competition, which is why it tried to buy Time Warner Cable instead of competing with it.
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Wireless giant AT&T has reached a deal to buy Time Warner, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, as the company pushes into the entertainment industry.
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AT&T CEO could be feeling a little like Casey at the Bat as he awaits a verdict on whether his company can buy Time Warner.
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The acquisition is a coup for Meredith, Reuters reported, as the company held unsuccessful talks to buy Time earlier this year, as well as in 2013.
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Barbajosa said he expects a "significant decline" in oil prices, should the U.S. attempt to delay a decision on the deal in order to buy time.
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Disney and Fox have given data to the Justice Department that is being used to build a case against AT&T's bid to buy Time Warner.
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But leading opposition figures said they would not take part in the session, suggesting instead that the government wanted to buy time by agreeing to discussions.
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The Justice Department will not seek an emergency stay of a federal judge's ruling to allow AT&T to buy Time Warner, according to court documents.
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U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled Tuesday that AT&T could buy Time Warner with no conditions attached, denying a Department of Justice antitrust challenge.
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Any potential deal will follow the U.S. Department of Justice's decision last month to sue to block AT&T's $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner.
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Graham said a conference committee would buy time for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to score proposals from himself and Cassidy, as well as by Sen.
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In 2015, the agency blocked another Comcast deal, that time to buy Time Warner Cable, a cable company that is a separate company from Time Warner.
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AT&T wants to buy Time Warner so it can bundle mobile service with video entertainment and take online advertising from Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc.
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Last fall, AT&T said it was going to buy Time Warner for $86 billion, and gave itself a year to get the mega-deal done.
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Media firms and content distributors are rapidly consolidating around the world, as shown by AT&T's plan to buy Time Warner after already having acquired DirecTV.
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Washington feared that liberal South Korean presidents' preference for dialogue and openness were helping North Korea buy time and secure funds for its nuclear weapons program.
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Still, many in Afghanistan argue that Pakistan, which has come under heavy pressure from Washington, is simply encouraging hopes of progress in order to buy time.
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If that's not enough, Benioff has just agreed to buy Time Magazine for $190 million, though he said he'll have no operational role at the publication.
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But once AT&T completes its $86 billion deal to buy Time Warner, Stankey will be the guy overseeing the company that runs HBO, Warner Bros.
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Kurz and other EU leaders have repeatedly said that any extension should be for a clearly defined reason and not just in order to buy time.
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" He also says Lululemon was propelled by "wealthy women" who could "'buy' time in their lives and were consequently often in great shape and very healthy.
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"It comes down to you to make it work, my fine young troops ... and we'll buy time for our diplomats to solve this problem," he said.
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Delay animates everything about the design, to buy time for the people inside and mitigate the harm an attacker can commit while waiting for rescuers to arrive.
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AT&T is close to nailing down its deal to buy Time Warner, a massive content company that owns HBO, CNN and the "Harry Potter" film franchise.
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That's the message from a federal judge, who has ruled today that AT&T can buy Time Warner — and, crucially, didn't apply any restrictions to his decision.
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The hope here is that if the research holds up in people, it could represent a new way to treat heart attacks — or at least buy time.
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The move appeared to be an attempt to buy time to come up with a long term blueprint to save Trump by turning the politics of impeachment.
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"If I can buy time by outsourcing personal tasks — preparing taxes, hanging bookshelves, making lunch — it is often worth the price tag," CEO of XO Group Inc.
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Analysts say a freeze would do very little to change the world oil glut, but it might help producing nations buy time until the oil market stabilizes.
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Of note, Comcast* scuttled its plan to buy Time Warner Cable two years ago when the DOJ leaked word that it would sue to stop that merger.
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Meredith had said in November that it would buy Time Inc in a $1.84 billion all-cash deal backed by conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.
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Mr Fleming admits an Australia free of feral cats is a long way off: "But the fence strategy can buy time until a silver bullet is found."
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If AT&T does indeed buy Time Warner, it would be the largest acquisition of the year and give AT&T control of HBO, CNN, Warner Bros.
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Though an excellent idea in principle, it came as no surprise to observers of Mr Maduro, whose aim is to buy time, that this is going nowhere.
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This means the continuing resolution is a more likely outcome and one that would buy time for a longer budget deal at the end of the year.
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U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled Tuesday that AT&T could buy Time Warner with no conditions attached, denying a Justice Department antitrust challenge to the deal.
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The DOJ sued on Monday to block AT&T's $85 billion deal to buy Time Warner, calling it an "illegal" combination that harms consumers and stifles innovation.
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AT&T will buy Time Warner for $85 billion, the two companies said Saturday, the largest media transaction since AOL merged with Time Warner 16 years ago.
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Women lamented the 'missing men' in their lives, viewing egg freezing as a way to buy time while on the continuing (online) search for a committed partner.
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From mortgages to car payments, from small business loans to large lines of credit for business operations, anything we can do to buy time is helpful here.
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Why the world needs multiple test kits It's easy to see how Landt and Poon's early work helped other countries buy time and prepare for an outbreak.
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Despite this whole addressable advertising, exactly, and you know, new types of online video, I mean that's really why you're spending $993 billion to buy Time-Warner?
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Comcast unveiled its $65 billion bid for the bulk of 21st Century Fox yesterday — less than 21 hours after AT&T was cleared to buy Time Warner.
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Public health officials insist that drastic steps to enforce social distancing are crucial to buy time for the medical system to treat a rush of coronavirus patients.
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"I didn't realize two weeks ago I was going to buy Time," he said in an interview late Sunday, a few hours after the deal was announced.
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Later that day, a federal judge approved AT&T's deal to buy Time Warner, a decision that could give rise to a wave of huge media mergers.
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That process could take months, they argued, and it would buy time to manage the domestic and international fallout that would ensue when the truth came out.
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As Jordain Carney reports, the move would buy time for negotiations on what is emerging as one of the most divisive points of the looming Senate proceeding.
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Less risky and less invasive options, such as placing a temporary filling to buy time until a child will sit for a proper one, should be discussed.
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A Tsai win would buy time for America to reassess and readjust its relationship with Taiwan, which has been undervalued by a series of administrations in Washington.
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Menendez has also indicated to the New York Times that he may put a hold on the new rules to buy time to debate and revise them.
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AT&T – AT&T's deal to buy Time Warner for $85 billion is near the final stages of its government review, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Among adults aged 25 to 54, the demographic most important to advertisers who buy time on news programs, CNN was first as well with 25.2 million viewers.
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In essence, the Marines get two and a half more squadrons of their primary multi-role fighter to buy time for the F-35B to become operational.
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Responding this week, the state rejected the appellants' argument as false and as an attempt to buy time, noting that the Supreme Court had previously approved the demolition.
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It was the prospect of building a similarly integrated producer, purchaser and distributor of content that led AT&T, a wireless giant, to buy Time Warner for $109bn.
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Local lawmakers plan to work with the mining operations that are already present and use the moratorium to buy time while they come up with a permanent solution.
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One senior official in the ruling party said the bad economic news might offer the government a political advantage by enabling it to dampen expectations and buy time.
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But it did buy time for the security and internet infrastructure community to get control of the situation, and for administrators to patch their systems against the ransomware.
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In January Randall Stephenson, the boss of AT&T, which is trying to buy Time Warner in a deal Mr Trump denounced during his campaign, paid his respects.
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Across town, at that very moment, a judge was preparing to rule as to whether AT&T could buy Time Warner, which Delrahim had brought suit to stop.
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The fiscal and monetary expansion, his first two "arrows", were supposed to buy time for the third and most important one: sweeping structural reforms, leading to enduring growth.
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And since AT&T is in the process of trying to buy Time Warner, one would expect the new service to include CNN, TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network.
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AT&T's plan to buy Time Warner was expected to spark a new round of industry consolidation and give rise to deals that combine digital distribution and content.
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Even when the antibiotic tetracycline is present, the cells use the pump to export the antibiotics from the cell and "buy time for the cell" to acquire resistance.
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AT&T has reached a deal to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion, a move that would create one of the most powerful media companies in the world.
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"Syria is right now trying to buy time by driving those innocent and grieving people in Idlib toward our borders," Erdoǧan was quoted as saying by Turkish media.
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Agreements like the Iran Deal are intended to buy time for diplomats to do their job, he told The Hill — not act as a panacea for bilateral relations.
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AT&T said on Saturday that it would buy Time Warner Inc for $85.4 billion, as it looks to diversify its business into the media and entertainment market.
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Some companies in America use bankruptcy protection to buy time to salvage themselves, much as car firms and airlines have done; Peabody, too, said it would emerge stronger.
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The measure aimed to buy time for Congress and President Donald Trump to negotiate border security funding while returning hundreds of thousands of federal workers to their jobs.
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It also helps that Mahomes is a great athlete, and seems effortlessly comfortable dodging defenders and using his legs to either buy time or even scramble for yardage.
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Typically retail firms roll over debt to buy time, but interest rates have risen since the last set of buyouts several years ago, making that prospect more expensive.
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Ironically, if Leon does decide AT&T can't buy Time Warner, it will likely be due to AT&T's prior acquisition of DirecTV — a double-whammy for shareholders.
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The deal is the latest one to marry distribution with content after AT&T Inc announced an $85 billion bid to buy Time Warner Inc earlier this year.
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AT&T struck a deal to buy Time Warner last year but finalizing the transaction has stalled as the Justice Department continues to review it for anti-trust.
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However, if Judge Leon does allow AT&T to buy Time Warner, T-Mobile and Sprint's chances greatly improve, according to Wagner, the Federal Bar Association's antitrust chair.
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This is not terribly unusual as presidents of both parties have employed it to buy time to figure out what to do with the policies of their predecessors.
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Last month, AT&T announced an $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner (a separate company from its former cable subsidiary) and is seeking the government's regulatory approval.
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On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice moved to approve two big acquisitions from Charter Communications to buy Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.
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It's no secret why telecom titan AT&T wants to buy Time Warner, the giant content factory that owns HBO, CNN, and the legendary Hollywood studio Warner Bros.
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The Colts were able to buy time to lay a foundation for the Luck era because the rest of the AFC South put out subpar teams most years.
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Twenty-First Century Fox shareholders will benefit the most from AT&T's major legal victory in its pursuit to buy Time Warner, according to one Wall Street firm.
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Basically, the government was concerned if you buy Time-Warner you're going to blackout Time-Warner channels to other pay TV providers, and that's bad for consumers, etc.
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A top Senate Democrat expressed fresh fears yesterday that President Donald Trump may have interfered with the U.S. government's review of AT&T's bid to buy Time Warner.
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These are the kinds of things that let a country flatten the curve—slow down the spread of illness, reduce pressure on hospitals, buy time for new therapies.
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"The (Chinese) government is trying to buy time in terms of using the window to restructure the domestic economy ... the domestic corporate sector," Chung told CNBC on Thursday.
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What wireless company plans to buy Time Warner (the parent company of CNN), though the merger faces uncertainty amid the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit to block the deal?
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In recent years, the Treasury Department had been using a process of internal borrowing known as "extraordinary measures" to buy time after the technical debt limit was reached.
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And by tying trade to security, Mexico will also be able to buy time in negotiations, contended Rafael Fernández de Castro, an adviser to former President Felipe Calderón.
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The National Enquirer may still be able to buy Time magazine even after it was sold to Meredith Corporation last week, according to a report published Monday night.
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The modest increase of a few thousand troops widely reported to be under consideration promises to do little more than buy time by arresting the downward security slide.
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AT&T fell nearly 3 percent after the Wall Street Journal reported the wireless carrier was in advanced talks to buy Time Warner, whose stock surged 8.1 percent.
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A North Korean official earlier this month accused U.S. negotiators of trying to buy time without offering solutions as the two countries struggle to reach a nuclear agreement.
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As the student sit-in at Hampshire enters its fifth full week, alumni are scrambling to raise cash to buy time until a permanent solution can be found.
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Any potential deal will follow the U.S. Department of Justice's decision last month to sue to block AT&T Inc's $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner Inc.
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Now, AT&T has announced plans to buy Time Warner for $22000 billion, basically making the same content-distribution bet AOL made for Time Warner 22016 years ago.
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Now, AT&T has announced plans to buy Time Warner for $20003 billion, basically making the same content-distribution bet AOL made for Time Warner 16 years ago.
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The United States has urged both sides to reach a "standstill agreement" to buy time for talks before Japan strips South Korea of its status of favored trading partner.
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The high-profile move to force Mr. Xiao out appeared to be an attempt to buy time to limit the damage from the bungled management of the stock markets.
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If confirmed, Delrahim would oversee the Justice Department's assessment of AT&T's Inc plan to buy Time Warner Inc, the owner of HBO, Warner Brothers and news network CNN.
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A reasonable strategy would have been to buy time with credit expansion and infrastructure spending while reforming the economy in ways that put more purchasing power into families' hands.
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Through Koch Industries' private-equity arm, the Republican-leaning activist U.S. billionaires are sinking $650 million into Meredith to help it buy Time Inc for $2.8 billion including debt.
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Some analysts said the appointments also raised questions over whether Trump would carry out his campaign pledge to kill AT&T's $85.4 billion proposal to buy Time Warner TWX.
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Many cite the case of AT&T, which is trying to buy Time Warner, warning that HBO, a premium cable channel, could in future get into a "fast lane".
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In a completely frustrating, but not all that surprising, piece of news, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is recommending that the commission approve Charter Communications' plan to buy Time Warner.
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I explained that I thought it would buy time, to let us keep control of OpenMind until we'd been able to destroy the device and stop the interdimensional swapping.
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That's not so simple with vertical mergers like AT&T's proposal to buy Time Warner, since AT&T could argue in court that the deal won't reduce anyone's choices.
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Verizon rival AT&T, which acquired DirecTV in 2015, is trying to get government approval for its $85 deal to buy Time Warner by the end of the year.
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Cash infusions from the Quebec government in the CSeries plane production, and by Quebec's pension fund in the rail business, helped it buy time to launch a turnaround program.
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"If we can just buy time and hold on to winning, I like where we are going," Sixers coach Brett Brown told NBC Sports Philadelphia on the court postgame.
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler is likely to circulate soon a proposal to approve Charter's bid to buy Time Warner Cable, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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In May 2015, Charter said it would buy Time Warner Cable in a cash-and-stock deal, a move it said would allow it to better compete with Comcast.
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In Massachusetts last year, the court ruled that state and local police could not detain immigrants solely to buy time for federal law enforcement to take them into custody.
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Several politicians, including President-elect Donald J. Trump, expressed concern after AT&T agreed in October to buy Time Warner, which owns HBO and CNN, for about $85.4 billion.
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler is likely to circulate soon a proposal to approve Charter's bid to buy Time Warner Cable, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Case, co-founder of AOL, appeared on CNBC's "Squawk Box, " a day after a federal judge cleared the way for AT&T's $85.4 billion bid to buy Time Warner.
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AT&T argued it needs to buy Time Warner not to compete with their old-school telecom and pay-TV rivals, but new players like Facebook, Google and Netflix.
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After U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that AT&T could buy Time Warner, likely ending a lawsuit brought against the companies by the U.S. Justice Department, everything changed.
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The bidding war for 21st Century Fox assets picked up after a federal judge cleared the way last week for AT&T to buy Time Warner for $85 billion.
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Experts, of course, argue that at best, travel bans like the one Trump instituted at a national level buy time for governments to act — time Trump failed to use.
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Yet the Florida shooting has plainly caused some Republicans to rethink the issue, or at least to buy time until they can assess whether this latest outcry will fade.
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A high-profile diplomatic foray — coupled with a suspension of provocative statements and new weapons tests — should at a minimum avoid new sanctions and buy time for the economy.
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GETTSYBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised on Saturday to foil a proposed deal for AT&T to buy Time Warner if he wins the Nov.
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He said he is hoping to buy time for his staff of about 10, most of whom work part time, and to create a viable strategy to increase funding.
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"Sanctions were designed to bring the North to the negotiating table, and they came, but it's not clear whether they want to negotiate or buy time," Professor Kim said.
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He argued that letting AT&T buy Time Warner would give customers another choice for video in an age when Amazon and Netflix have changed the rules of engagement.
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By acting now, we can buy time to amass resources, devise strategies to rebuild our health system and our economy, and develop treatments, vaccines and, ultimately, population herd immunity.
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The South's presidential Blue House said Abe told Suh he did not believe North Korea would use the summits to buy time to pursue its nuclear and missile programs.
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Now, in a bid to buy time, Pandora has found a partner that can give it some much-needed cash — and, perhaps down the line, become its new owner.
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In fact, "Both the most and least wealthy individuals we studied derived benefits from spending money to buy time," meaning it has "broad benefits for well-being," she says.
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The founder of Salesforce, Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff, have agreed to buy Time magazine for $190 million in cash from media and marketing company, Meredith Corporation.
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Or perhaps it's just trying to buy time to complete its corporate takeover of the democratic world order… To sum up: FB wants a currency, now a Supreme Court.
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Last year it agreed to buy Time Warner for $85 billion, and it said in June it plans to achieve annualized cost savings of $1.5 billion over three years.
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A federal judge gave the go-ahead Tuesday for AT&T to buy Time Warner for $85 billion, ruling against the Justice Department's lawsuit to block the deal in November.
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Sprint and T-Mobile are seen as highly likely to seek approval for some sort of merger, while AT&T is in the midst of trying to buy Time Warner.
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"You can buy time that way, but the long-term growth prospects don't get any better," he told bankers at an event hosted by the Association of German Public Banks.
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IS will also look to buy time and benefit from political and other conflicts — such as this month&aposs clashes between Iraqi and Kurdish forces following the Kurdish independence referendum.
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Deutsche Bank on Tuesday told investors to buy Time Warner shares because they are worth more than where they are trading now even if the AT&T merger is blocked.
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"This was not a power grab," Mr El-Erian writes; central banks had to buy time until the political system got its act together—which by and large it didn't.
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Deferring payments would reduce the outflow of cash from the system and would buy time for younger earners to enter the job market and start paying their share of taxes.
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Next week is the beginning of television networks' annual upfront presentations, where they wine, dine and charm advertisers in hopes of enticing them to buy time for their fall offerings.
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A U.S. official said in Washington that the United States has urged both nations to consider signing a "standstill agreement" on their dispute to buy time for them to talk.
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The main reason AT&T says it wants to buy Time Warner for $215bn is to create a digital ad platform linking AT&T's data to Time Warner's TV content.
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But critics have said that this enthusiasm for talks is a means for China to buy time and solidify its position during a period of relative dominance in the region.
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The House passed legislation on Monday to provide a four-month extension of Federal Aviation Administration programs to buy time ahead of a deadline at the end of this month.
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The U.S. Department of Justice sued to block AT&T's $85 billion deal to buy Time Warner over antitrust concerns, and later called the deal "illegal" and "harmful" to consumers.
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Mr. Lynn said Qualcomm would not disclose the cost of the ad, but noted that with less money needed to buy time on television, more was available for the production.
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Either a one- to three-day continuing resolution (CR) or a seven- to 6900-day one would buy time for a longer-term measure to fund the government through Sept.
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Some U.N. diplomats have suggested the United States might be trying to buy time as President Donald Trump's administration works out how to deal with the latest developments in Libya.
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The U.S. Department of Justice recently sued to block AT&T's $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, on the basis that it will raise prices for consumers and competitors.
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Indeed, these checks are not designed to stimulate the economy; they simply buy time for families who will soon decide between paying the rent and putting food on the table.
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In 2015, as Mexican forces closed in on Oseguera, tipped-off CJNG henchmen downed a military helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade to buy time for their leader to escape.
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Trump's tweets might also fuel suspicion that the Justice Department's effort to block AT&T's bid to buy Time Warner, CNN's parent company, is being influenced by the president himself.
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U.S. public health officials have moved from trying to contain the virus to attempting to slow its spread and buy time for the health care system to shoulder the burden.
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Its refusal to allow inspectors to conduct an inventory of its nuclear program, a basic first step in any actual denuclearization process, likely means it's just trying to buy time.
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For their part, American officials have said that North Korea has never been sincere in dealing with them, using negotiations to buy time while persisting in clandestine nuclear weapons development.
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AT&T bought DirecTV in 2015 and is now trying to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion so it has a foothold in the mobile industry, television distribution and content.
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The debt exchange will lower its total debt, and "buy time" for continued asset sale and increased oil production, said John Thieroff, a senior credit analyst at Moody's Investor Service.
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But even though the argument may not hold up in court, it's a savvy political move to buy time as the company deals with public pressure over its labor practices.
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Just days after AT&T announced its plans to buy Time Warner, its rivals in the telecommunications industry, CenturyLink and Level 3 Communications, announced a hefty deal of their own.
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Comcast bought NBCUniversal in 2011, AT&T (which already merged with DirecTV) is attempting to buy Time Warner, and Verizon has invested serious money in its own mobile-focused Go90 service.
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The government will soon arrange a bank loan for Air India, the second official said, to meet working capital needs and buy time for a few months before inviting fresh bids.
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This is the logic behind AT&T's proposed $109bn deal to buy Time Warner, marrying America's biggest distributor of pay TV to one of the biggest producers of television and film.
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Go deeper: Theresa May moves to buy time as Brexit deadlock continues How Europe's right-wing populist parties have fared in recent elections The U.K. is changing its mind on Brexit
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The Tide Is Turning Against Comcast's Proposal To Buy Time Warner Cable It's long been impossible to imagine a family budget that doesn't include line items like electricity, gas, and groceries.
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Federal regulators will impose several conditions meant to protect online video services as they back Charter's bid to buy Time Warner Cable and create the country's second-largest home Internet provider.
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For the Justice Department, a key concern is that AT&T, which also owns DirecTV, could seek to withhold programming from other distributors if it were allowed to buy Time Warner.
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Even the defence secretary, James Mattis, a cerebral former Marine general who says his job is to "buy time for our diplomats" to solve the North Korean crisis, has weighed in.
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But the broader pattern in Nunes's theatrics this week suggests he's simply trying buy time and shield the Trump administration from what could be a high-profile and politically damaging hearing.
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Meredith is set to buy Time in a $1.84 billion deal, Indonesia raises the warning level for Bali's Mount Agung volcano and Britain's Prince Harry is engaged to actress Meghan Markle.
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AT&T on Saturday proposed to buy Time Warner for $223 billion in a bid to acquire content to stream over its network to attract a growing number of online viewers.
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I didn't want to over-insure myself and waste money on premiums, but I wanted my family to have enough money that they could buy time to heal if I died.
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On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled that AT&T could buy Time Warner with no conditions attached, denying a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust challenge to the deal.
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More importantly, if he is able to persuade the United States to roll back sanctions, he will buy time and execute the same delicate dance that North Korea has executed before.
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"The tariffs freeze allows the government to buy time, but they know they will be overruled and it will come back at them like a boomerang," said Colombus Consulting's Nicolas Goldberg.
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"He clearly set out to buy time for Assad, and that worked," said Derek Chollet, a former State Department and White House official in the Obama administration, referring to Mr. Putin.
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Calling North Korea's bluff: "If their plan is simply to buy time in order to continue building their arsenal...talks aren't going to get very far at all," the official said.
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In other words, even before AT&T was looking to buy Time-Warner, every distributor out there was concerned that I'm paying more for HBO than the next guy. Mm-hmm.
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The rancor around these provisions lasted until well into 20193, when, after extending the prior 2008 farm bill twice to buy time, Congress finally managed to work out a functional compromise.
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Even a delay in the rampage would buy time for the United States to help draw up new strategies for dealing with Syria if it definitively falls under Mr. Assad's rule.
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Containment attempts can slow down an outbreak and buy time to prepare, but if a pandemic hits, by definition, containment has failed and further attempts will be pointless, if not counterproductive.
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Some experts argue this is a bid for sanctions relief from South Korea's unilateral sanctions and it could just be a way to buy time while still developing its weapons program.
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Another tech billionaire is jumping into the media business: Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff announced Sunday they would buy Time Magazine for $190 million from Meredith Corporation.
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Roberts is waiting to see if AT&T will be allowed to buy Time Warner — which would signal a more favorable regulatory reality — before he makes another attempt, the sources say.
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Lincoln's leap came at the end of a legislative session, when he and his fellow Whigs were trying to buy time to save a state-run bank from being shut down.
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Subscribers: 244,210,22014Stock: $20133 Back in 22013, Netflix came out in opposition of Comcast's attempt to buy Time Warner Cable, saying the combined company might have too much leverage to charge "arbitrary" fees.
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AT&T also plans to buy Time Warner Inc for $85.4 billion to gain control of premium content from networks such as HBO, as online video competition is expected to heat up.
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EnviroCorp installed them around the country decades ago, during their initial round of scrubber retrofits, to buy time until they perfected the technology behind the "negative" part of the carbon-negative scrubbers.
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Stemming emissions of methane, soot, and hydrofluorocarbons, for example, could essentially buy time by cutting the rate of short-term warming in half over the next few decades, according to the paper.
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Regardless of the deal's merits, if Judge Richard Leon decides AT&T can't buy Time Warner, Stephenson's attempt to transform the nation's second-largest wireless provider will have proven unsuccessful yet again.
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To CNBC's Jim Cramer, the court decision to let telecom giant AT&T buy Time Warner without any conditions sent a message to the Justice Department: you don't understand the new reality.
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This doesn't preclude the plan eventually taking effect, but it does stop the clock on implementation and buy time to address climate change more meaningfully, at lower cost and without expanding government.
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Verizon bought AOL last year and is in the process of acquiring Yahoo's business, while AT&T bought DirecTV and just announced its plan to spend $86 billion to buy Time Warner.
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The big picture: AT&T recently closed an $85 billion deal to buy Time Warner and developing a digital advertising business was a big part of its pursuit of the content company.
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And it's a striking change of heart for Rupert Murdoch and his sons, who tried to buy Time Warner three years ago but now seem to believe that smaller may be better.
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Democrats offered several possible justifications for the move — that it could buy time to obtain more evidence, or that it would put a public spotlight on Republicans' attempts to restrict the trial.
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"What I'm going to talk about is just figuring out how we can buy time to save people who are dying in front of us who we just can't fix quickly enough."
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What to watch: Fernández appears to be calling for a standstill, hoping he can buy time to stimulate demand and brighten growth prospects while keeping the IMF and other investors at bay.
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The GOP is moving forward this month with plans to repeal ObamaCare without a replacement, but delay repeal going into effect for a few years to buy time for drafting an alternative.
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The completed acquisition will be a victory for Charter, which swept in to buy Time Warner Cable after Comcast dropped its own proposed bid to buy the company under pressure from regulators.
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Graham, played brilliantly by Meryl Streep, is outraged and incensed that so many young lives are being lost just to buy time for a cause that is indefensible and doomed to defeat.
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Speaking at an economic conference in Italy, he said the European Central Bank would continue to do its job and buy time with its ultra-expansionary monetary policies even though reforms lagged.
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North Korea has objected to Trump administration senior officials to the "Libyan model," which is seen as shorthand for a front-loaded denuclearization process that blocks North Korean efforts to buy time.
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He voted against Charter's attempt to buy Time Warner Cable last year on the grounds that the merger conditions set by the FCC imposed onerous regulations that needed to be left out.
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This is why GOP leaders are discussing a "replace and delay" option, which would keep the repeal from going into effect for a few years and buy time to figure out what's next.
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He voted, for example, against Charter's attempt to buy Time Warner Cable on the grounds that the merger conditions the FCC included in the deal imposed onerous regulations that should be left out.
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AT&T said last month it would buy Time Warner for $27.17 billion in a bold bid to acquire content to stream over its networks, valuing the media company at $26.98 per share.
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It could be a brilliant way for the company to buy time and save itself the cost of defending fraud litigation – but not if the deal is being crammed down investors' throats improperly.
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Titanun Mallikamas, secretary of the BOT's monetary policy committee, told a news conference a rate cut was to "buy time" as the central bank assessed heightened risks of trade wars and external factors.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Charter Communications Inc said on Thursday its proposal to buy Time Warner Cable Inc was approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, overcoming the last hurdle to complete the deal.
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Monte dei Paschi is now awaiting the outcome of a similar review by JPMorgan, which has pledged to provide a 5 billion euro bridge loan to buy time to arrange the state guarantee.
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Peabody has hoped a $358 million sale of mines in New Mexico and Colorado to privately held Bowie Resource Partners would buy time for a coal recovery, but that deal has not closed.
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Congress has until the end of Friday to fund the government, and the House Appropriations Committee late Wednesday unveiled a short-term extension to buy time for negotiations on a full spending package.
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Charter said in May that it would buy Time Warner Cable in a $56 billion cash-and-stock deal that would make it the No. 2 U.S. Internet and cable company after Comcast.
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AT&T announced that it had agreed to buy Time Warner Inc in October and said it would finance the cash portion of the acquisition with debt and cash on its balance sheet.
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Trump announced in December he would hold off on raising tariffs on billions of dollars in Chinese goods to 25 percent in order to buy time to negotiate a broader agreement with Beijing.
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AT&T struck a deal to buy Time Warner last year but finalizing the transaction stalled during a prolonged government antitrust review that has culminated in a law suit to block the deal.
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GETTSYBURG, Pa. , Oct 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised on Saturday to foil a proposed deal for AT&T Inc to buy Time Warner Inc if he wins the Nov.
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Fritzsche pointed out that AT&T's $85 billion plan to buy Time Warner is a vertical merger, one between companies operating at different levels within an industry's supply chain, which can increase efficiencies.
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Plant operators may be able to buy time by seeking license extensions for another 22012 years from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or by building more large reactors like four that are under construction.
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The deal could "cause a whole bunch of different horribles for consumers," according to Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, who led the congressional opposition over Comcast's failed bid to buy Time Warner Cable.
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AT&T, which cleared its last regulatory hurdle last week after winning an appeals court decision challenging its $85 billion deal to buy Time Warner, aims to reinvest savings into its programming businesses.
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But given the failure of previous rounds of dialogue between the government and opposition, including one led by the Vatican, opponents are suspicious, believing Maduro uses them to quell protests and buy time.
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Trump may initially choose milder options targeting individual Turks rather than the government, a decision that could buy time for more diplomacy even while it may prompt Congress to separately impose tougher sanctions.
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AT&T won its legal fight to be allowed to buy Time Warner — a huge blow to the Justice Department, which sought to block the deal on the grounds that consumers would suffer.
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Here's a primer on what happened: AT&T, which most Americans know as a mobile-phone service provider, is trying to buy Time Warner, owner of big media brands including HBO, Warner Bros.
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Mr. Le Maire said the seizure of STX was temporary and designed only to buy time to renegotiate an accord more favorable to the French government, which owns a third of the company.
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A 213 attempt to buy Time Warner Cable collapsed under pressure from regulators, who found that the combined company would have had the power and incentive to inhibit the future of streaming video.
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Despite legal troubles plaguing company leadership, including possible jail time for de facto boss Jay Y. Lee, a chip boom could buy time for the group to invest in new sources of growth.
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One way to buy time is the all-important DBX, the carmaker's first SUV, where Palmer has judiciously steered away from the company's traditional associations with 007 wannabes to specifically target female drivers.
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He could try to buy time by sending another "love letter" to Kim Jong Un; hold another summit with the North Korean leader; or insist on continuing with negotiations at the working level.
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"Since the is also meant to buy time to negotiate the future EU-UK trade relationship, it is highly unlikely that a meaningful trade deal will be finalized during that period, " Korteweg said.
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The House and Senate on Thursday passed a two-week stopgap spending measure known as a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open and buy time to negotiate a longer-term deal.
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AT&T also decided to buy Time Warner in the past year, another monster investment that will pull money away from network spending (if the Trump administration doesn't block the deal to punish CNN).
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The No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier is trying to buy Time Warner, which also owns the premium channel HBO and movie studio Warner Bros, so it can bundle video entertainment on its mobile service.
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The underlying funding bill would keep the government running through April 28 to buy time for the incoming Trump administration and Congress to wrap up more than $1 trillion in unfinished agency budget work.
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Trump had initially imposed the new tariffs in March -- saying a reliance on imported metals threatened national security -- but he had previously exempted Canada, Mexico and the European Union to buy time for negotiations.
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Seeking to buy time, Lagarde has promised a review of the bank's "monetary framework", likely to mean its policy goals and tools, similar to a review now being conducted by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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Media and broadcast firms were also in focus, with ITV up 2.3 percent and Sky up 1.5 percent, after AT&T Inc agreed to buy Time Warner Inc for $4.33 billion over the weekend.
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Meredith, which owns lifestyle magazines such as Better Homes & Gardens and Family Circle, agreed to buy Time Inc in a $1.84 billion all-cash deal backed by conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.
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Amid news that telecom giant AT&T is in advanced talks to buy Time Warner, one media heavyweight said it would not be a decision he would make if he were running AT&T.
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But successive American governments also know that North Korea is a master at playing on southern desires for peace, and at using talks to buy time for its weapons scientists to build new arms.
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This would buy time for Springer, which also publishes financial news website Business Insider, to prospect for acquisitions and build its digital classifieds portfolio, which earns more than four-fifths of its core profit.
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The telecommunications giant's move to buy Time Warner exemplifies a corporate-level shift across the industry away from that costly standalone model and into Subscription Video On-Demand (SVOD) with its WarnerMedia streaming service.
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Earlier, May asked the EU for a three-month delay to Brexit to buy time to get her twice-rejected divorce deal through parliament, but the request faced immediate resistance from the European Commission.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts police do not have the authority to detain illegal immigrants solely to buy time for federal law enforcement officials to take them into custody, the state's top court ruled on Monday.
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Charter said in May that it would buy Time Warner Cable in a $56 billion cash-and-stock deal that would make it the No. 2 U.S. Internet and cable company after Comcast Corp.
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Short-term CRs serve a constructive purpose when they buy time to negotiate funding levels, consider unique agency needs, and get new information on budget estimates that are as much as a year old.
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"I believe the NBH is trying to buy time and its goal is to somehow stay behind the ECB (tightening curve)," said Gyula Mark Pleschinger, head of treasury sales at MKB Bank in Budapest.
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President Saied, an independent retired law professor, has already pushed anti-corruption proposals since his inauguration, a program that diplomats have said could win enough public support to buy time for new economic reforms.
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President Saied, an independent retired law professor, has already pushed anti-corruption proposals since his inauguration, a program that diplomats have said could win enough public support to buy time for new economic reforms.
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Charter Communications said on Thursday that its proposals to buy Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks had been approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, overcoming the last hurdle to complete the deals.
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Sources tell CNBC that Comcast is making preparations for a possible all-cash bid for Twenty-First Century Fox's entertainment assets, but only if the government approves AT&T's bid to buy Time Warner.
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For answers, I turned to Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, the former "Saturday Night Live" comedian who led the congressional opposition to Comcast's failed bid to buy Time Warner Cable nearly two years ago.
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Nasukawa has scored rolling thunder knockdowns on lesser opponents but against Rodtang and Suakim it was painfully obvious that he was using this and the cartwheel kick to buy time as he was exhausted.
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After 221st Century Fox failed to buy Time Warner in 2489.6, some analysts have been skeptical that it is big enough to compete with giants like Comcast and AT&T — thus necessitating a sale.
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"South Korea conservatives will be cautious about the latest news, because they've seen the North break their promises before and they've seen the North use dialogue as a ploy to buy time," Kim said.
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Randall L. Stephenson, AT&T's chief executive, came forward Friday to say that the company had made a "big mistake" in hiring Mr. Cohen to advise on the company's deal to buy Time Warner.
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"We will be able to keep pressure on that ISIS network enough to keep it decentralized so that it cannot mass and to buy time for the G.N.A. to develop governance," said Brig. Gen.
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The process, which may include hearings, will buy time for Ms. Park's embattled party to recover from the scandal and prepare for the next presidential election if the court decides to formally unseat her.
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He threw for nearly 5,000 yards as a senior, with 46 TDs and only eight interceptions, and displayed a quick release and the ability to scramble, whether to buy time or pick up yards.
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Blake and Nicol said that would allow policy makers to "buy time" and gain the economic benefits from a weaker Aussie dollar and the US Federal Reserve raises rates and potentially tightens monetary policy.
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That tightrope walking may help protect French business ties in Iran and buy time with the Saudis, but diplomats are concerned the 39-year-old president, new to international affairs, may ultimately leave France exposed.
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So to buy time, Democrats have gone on long tirades about Trump's taxes, requested a clerk read the health care bill in its entirety, and listed the president's possible conflict of interests one by one.
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When Nate Diaz had walked Cerrone down in 2011, shooting left straights down the pipe, Cerrone had found out late in the second round that he could use the outside low kick to buy time.
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For the banks, this represents more can-kicking, an attempt to buy time and hopefully allow for capital to accrete, rather than a more forceful U.S. or Swiss-style restocking and restructuring of balance sheets.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block AT&T's $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, struck more than 15 months ago, on the grounds it would raise prices for consumers and rivals.
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Here's a primer on what is about to happen: AT&T, which most Americans know as a mobile-phone provider, is trying to buy Time Warner, owner of big media brands including HBO, Warner Bros.
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The sale was in play before this week's surprise announcement of a publishing deal in which the Meredith Corporation, which owns titles like Better Homes and Gardens and AllRecipes, said it would buy Time Inc.
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Jim Renacci (R-Ohio) said in an interview this weekend that he personally wants a delay so the divided conference can unify, though several GOP sources dismissed his request as a ploy to buy time.
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Tactically, Mr. Bryant said, he believed it was critical to buy time, and then to create a psychic space so that each of the young men could subtract guns from the dispute without losing face.
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At 25'2000 and 246 pounds, with 4.77 (40m dash) speed and 4.12 (20m shuttle) quickness Wentz has elite physical attributes, and he knows how to use them to buy time to throw on the run.
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Every time you do this, you buy time, but the problem gets harder because the types of damage that the therapy reverses will catch up, and those imperfections just need to be progressively partially eliminated.
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AT&T announced its agreement to buy Time Warner in 2016 but didn't emerge with full, no-strings-attached control of the company until February 2018, when the DOJ lost its appeal to block the deal.
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They went all-in on him because of all of the other unique things he can do, and they overhauled their run game around him this year to buy time while he develops as a thrower.
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AT&T initially signed a deal to buy Time Warner in October 2016, but its closure was delayed after the Justice Department sued to stop the acquisition, saying it would lead to higher prices for consumers.
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Pence agreed the Trump administration would allow the two sides room to talk, the official said, adding, however, that Washington was concerned the North would drag out the process to buy time for its weapons development.
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U.S. stock futures were pointing to a higher open on Wall Street, following the first positive week in three and renewed M&A activity led by AT&T's (T) mega-deal to buy Time Warner (TWX).
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The next night, at Dante's in Portland, all of the bands' sets were pushed back, and during Wax Idols' set, the sound person came onstage, imploring them to play two more songs, presumably to buy time.
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But the UK might try to finagle an extension, arguing it needs more time to approve a deal, or negotiate more concessions, or buy time in the case of political uncertainty, such as a leadership change.
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GOP leaders are planning a strategy to quickly repeal the law with a simple majority in the Senate, but then delay repeal going into effect for a few years to buy time to craft a replacement.
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PRAGUE/LONDON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Chinese energy and investment group CEFC has teamed up with Czech-Slovak financial group Penta Investments to buy Time Warner's Central European Media Enterprises, three sources familiar with the matter said.
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It's also possible the deal will fall apart under pressure from the Justice Department, as happened when AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile in 2011 and when Comcast tried to buy Time Warner last year.
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Franken's silence -- aside from two statements he released (one far better than the other) -- coupled with the focus on referring the matter to the ethics committee, is a way for the Minnesota Democrat to buy time.
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For its part, AT&T said at the time that it wanted to buy Time Warner to diversify its revenue, and also become a media powerhouse that could attract consumers by bundling entertainment with mobile service.
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The entire entertainment sector is readjusting after AT&T got legal clearance to buy Time Warner and Comcast topped Disney's bid for a key portion of Twenty-First Century Fox's assets, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday.
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We discussed this ahead of Holm vs Rousey—a great classical (and illegal) way to keep an advancing fighter away from the inside is simply to stiff arm their face to buy time before circling off.
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Other prominent telecommunications deals have imploded even after huge lobbying efforts, most notably Comcast's attempt to buy Time Warner Cable in 2014 and AT&T's bid in 2011 to buy T-Mobile, a cellular telephone competitor.
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Deal makers across all industries are waiting for tomorrow, when Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court in Washington is to rule on the government's effort to block AT&T's bid to buy Time Warner.
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After Congress passed an earlier stopgap measure to prevent a shutdown earlier in December, the idea was that lawmakers would agree to the ceilings and then approve a new stopgap to buy time to negotiate details.
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"At this point, Canada is trying to buy time by stressing it has a rules-based order and an independent judiciary," said the source, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation.
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For one thing, AT&T is far enough along in its quest to buy Time Warner that regulators studying it at the Justice Department are now weighing whether to apply conditions on the deal, sources have said.
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These immediate measures should buy time for Europeans to provide protection for those who need it, to work out how to share the asylum burden more equitably and ultimately to accept more refugees in an orderly fashion.
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Nicholson has advocated for adding a few thousand US troops specifically in order to "buy time" for the Afghan forces to be better trained and look after their own security, one official close to him told CNN.
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It was celebrated by L.G.B.T. Methodists and their supporters as a way to buy time and avoid church discipline against more than 100 clergy and clergy candidates who came out as gay in advance of the conference.
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The arrangement illustrates efforts by the telecoms company to work with an influential adviser to the new president as his administration took up major industry issues and considered its $85 billion proposal to buy Time Warner Inc.
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Further distractions in the sands of Mesopotamia while engaging in a Cold War 2.0 with Russia will only buy time for China to continue its present strategy of "salami slicing" in East Asia, as Foreign Policy notes.
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AT&T's $85 billion attempt to buy Time Warner and its way into the content business goes to trial on Monday, kicking off a courtroom battle with the Justice Department that could stretch on for two months.
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To buy time, she says she can't marry until she finishes weaving a funeral shroud for her father-in-law, but every night she undoes the day's work, making the task last as long as she can.
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Lee said the summit, however, is a political move, one in which Kim can "buy time and money to do what he really wants to do, which is to further advance his nuclear and missile, menacing capabilities."
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That's because Judge Richard Leon's decision last week to allow AT&T to buy Time Warner without conditions encouraged Comcast to offer $65 billion for the Fox assets (a move it considered for months), topping Disney's bid.
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Government stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders aim to slow the spread of coronavirus and buy time to develop a vaccine, but they have already triggered widespread layoffs and threaten the prospect of mass unemployment.
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That's what the TV guys do at their annual "upfront" presentations, when they try to convince marketers to buy time in upcoming programming based on clips of the stuff that will be out in a few months.
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Democratic lawmakers are signaling they plan to question President Donald Trump's nominee to oversee competition issues on his past ties to corporate giants like AT&T, which is currently seeking the government's permission to buy Time Warner.
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If he is using the talks to buy time or get public relations points, the US strategy will be very different than if he is in fact under enough pressure that he is ready to negotiate denuclearization.
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While the two sides have earned praise for ratcheting down military tensions in recent weeks, some of Seoul's allies voiced concern Wednesday that Pyongyang may be using the talks to buy time to pursue its weapons program.
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They were "trying to buy time to have a Taser (brought to the scene) and he didn't make any direct movement at me," McElligott said, adding he felt his partner was protecting him from the squad car.
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Mr. Tillerson's comments in Seoul, a day before he travels to Beijing to meet Chinese leaders, explicitly rejected any return to the bargaining table in an effort to buy time by halting North Korea's accelerating testing program.
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Obsession with measurement and the search for a universal problem-solving metric — to try to quantify the "health, openness and civility of public conversation", as Twitter puts it — also looks very much like a strategy to buy time.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe doesn't believe North Korea will use summits with the United States and South Korea to buy time to pursue its nuclear and missile programs, South Korea's presidential office said on Tuesday.
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And when Comcast tried to buy Time Warner Cable, it actually bragged that the two companies didn't at all compete; that's true for much of the cable industry — most households are only given a single choice of provider.
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" He predicted that both Britain and the European Union would seek to buy more time ahead of the existing March 29 deadline for Britain to leave the EU. "I think they will take a break and buy time.
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But all of this talk about data gets to the heart of why AT&T's CEO has explicitly said he wants to buy Time Warner: harvesting data to sell more expensive ads to compete with Google and Facebook.
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If AT&T hadn't agreed to buy Time Warner, Cramer would have expected T-Mobile to be on the forefront of the news, as it crushed AT&T and Verizon by adding far more subscribers than anyone expected.
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AT&T said on Saturday it had agreed to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion, or $107.50 per share, to gain control of cable TV channels HBO and CNN, film studio Warner Bros, and other coveted media assets.
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Four sources familiar with Moscow's position told Reuters on Friday that Russia wants to strike a short-term deal with Kiev on gas transit to Europe in order to buy time to complete pipelines that will bypass Ukraine.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has urged South Korea and Japan to consider signing a "standstill agreement" on a serious diplomatic dispute to buy time for the countries to negotiate, a senior U.S. official told reporters on Tuesday.
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Before the summit, Sung-Yoon Lee, an expert on the Koreas, said Trump was "being played " by the North Korean leader and that Kim's intention was to buy time in order to continue working on his nuclear program.
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FRANKFURT, July 26 (Reuters) - Bankrupt German wind turbine manufacturer Senvion is in talks to buy time to allow it strike a rescue deal as negotiations with potential buyers of the company continue, people close to the matter said.
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Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: AT&T – AT&T's $85 billion deal to buy Time Warner was approved by a federal judge, handing a defeat to the Justice Department's effort to derail the deal.
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The last round of government funding approved by Congress is about to run out, and Trump could sign a bill that continues it for a few weeks, to buy time for his fully detailed budget to be released.
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Military officials and independent analysts stressed that American and other Western military aid may at best buy time for African allies to address poverty, lack of education, government corruption and other grievances that extremist groups seek to exploit.
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Coal producer Blackjewel LLC sought bankruptcy protection on Monday to buy time to reorganize or find a buyer, citing its inability to refinance debt and challenges such as rising black-lung costs as demand for thermal coal sags.
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"What we see from China is that travel restriction can be important to buy time so they can slow down the importation of cases and then start later the epidemics in other places in the world," Vespignani said.
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The business arrangement illustrates efforts by the telecommunications company to work with an influential adviser to the new president as his administration took up major industry issues and considered its $85 billion proposal to buy Time Warner Inc.
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A SABIC deal would allow the government to buy time for the initial public offer of shares in Aramco, according to industry and international banking sources, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
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Independent groups have stayed out of the race, and his most prominent Democratic opponent, the lawyer and former city councilman Sal F. Albanese, currently does not have enough campaign cash in his account to buy time on television.
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The two sides in 2019 participated in talks brokered by Norway that were meant to ease the political deadlock, but the opposition walked away from the meetings because it contended the government was using them to buy time.
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Hence for a while, Time Warner Cable and Time Warner were part of the same company, Comcast bought NBC Universal (and is a minority stakeholder in Vox Media), and now AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner.
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Critics are sceptical and say China is trying to buy time while it develops islands it built from scratch, adding missiles and, according to some experts, the capability to deploy combat aircraft in disputed waters deep into Southeast Asia.
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However, the fact that banks and lawyers are exploring these options shows the work they are doing to find work arounds, mainly to buy time before they decide if they will move some operations from Britain to the continent.
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The agreement illustrated efforts by the telecoms company to work with an influential adviser to the new president as the Trump administration took up major industry issues and considered AT&T's $85 billion proposal to buy Time Warner Inc.
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But this was merely to buy time, while he built up the armed forces and security services—including the powerful political police, the G20153—and cemented an alliance, begun in secret in the sierra, with the Cuban Communist Party.
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The African Export-Import Bank agreed on Friday a $500 million facility with the central bank of Egypt to help Egyptian importers, but this will buy time rather than resolve the underlying problem, an endemic shortage of hard currency.
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But critics have said that this enthusiasm for talks is a means for China to buy time and solidify its position during a period of relative dominance in the region where it has built island bases on submerged reefs.
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During his campaign for the White House, Trump said AT&T's proposal to buy Time Warner, owner of CNN and the Warner Bros movie studio, was an example of a "power structure" that was rigged against him and voters.
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Even if Pyongyang engages, and even if it does not conduct a missile or nuclear test, the Kim regime will almost certainly continue developing its nuclear weapons program and using its olive branch to South Korea to buy time.
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Given the complex challenges the Sisi government faces, it might be tempting to rationalize some of its practices as merely motivated by the exigencies of national security, with the belief that this could "buy time" for later democratic reforms.
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That short time frame could leave the main political parties looking to buy time in order to coalesce behind presidential candidates, and political analysts said it may take months for parliament to agree on an exit plan for Park.
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But Mr. Stephenson is staking out risky business propositions — and not only his $23 billion offer to buy Time Warner, a mega-deal that would create the world's largest media company, with enormous operations in both content and distribution.
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The gambit, announced at a news conference, helped Mr. Trump, then 27, slow down the HUD legal action, buy time and eventually claim a victory when, two years later, he signed a consent agreement with no admission of guilt.
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It sure would be nice, to buy time if nothing else, if we had a zero-carbon liquid fuel we could just feed into those existing systems, to reduce the emissions of the vehicles and appliances we're already using.
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WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - AT&T Inc won approval from a U.S. court on Tuesday to buy Time Warner Inc for $85 billion, allowing AT&T to compete with internet companies that dominate digital advertising and providing new sources of revenue.
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Opposition leader Juan Guaido, who has been recognized as Venezuela's rightful leader by more than 50 governments, has said any talks must lead to a sustained solution to the crisis and cannot be used by the Socialist Party to buy time.
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AT&T, which makes 80% of its sales from "pipes"—mobile and fixed broadband and voice lines—says it wants to buy Time Warner, which owns HBO and Warner Brothers, among other assets, to bulk up in the media business.
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Here's how hot "addressable" is: AT&T says the ability to build an addressable ad product for its DirecTV and DirectTV Now customers was one of the driving factors in its decision to buy Time Warner last year for $85 billion.
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Investors should buy Time Warner shares as the market is underestimating the chances the AT&T merger gets regulatory approval through asset sales and other remedies, according to Barclays, which raised its rating on the stock to overweight from equal weight.
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One source close to the matter said the postponement was requested by Vivendi, after discussions with AGCOM, to buy time while the French group was in negotiations with Mediaset to find a way out over a failed pay-TV deal.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AT&T Inc won court approval on Tuesday to buy Time Warner Inc for $85 billion, rebuffing an attempt by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to block the deal and likely setting off a wave of corporate mergers.
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AT&T argues that Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (the FAANGs) have completely transformed the relationship between content providers and distributors, and that it needs to buy Time Warner and its stable of broadcast programming to stay in the game.
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Republicans are eying a short-term spending bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR, to buy time for the negotiators to iron out the remaining sticking points — a temporary extension that was expected to pass easily with bipartisan support.
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Time Warner hit a near 16-year high of $98.31 following a report by the Wall Street Journal that the Federal Communications Commission chairman said he does not expect the agency to review AT&T's deal to buy Time Warner.
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Last month, Russian energy minister and several sources said Russia wanted to strike a short-term deal with Kiev on gas transit to Europe when the current 10-year agreement expires to buy time to complete pipelines that will bypass Ukraine.
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A Maryland judge has delayed what would have been the first trial nationally over claims Purdue Pharma fueled the opioid epidemic, despite arguments by state's attorney general that the OxyContin maker is seeking to buy time to prepare a bankruptcy filing.
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Antitrust lawyers were scratching their heads Wednesday over published reports that the Justice Department is insisting that AT&T sell its CNN cable network, or its DirecTV satellite television unit, if it wants to win approval to buy Time Warner.
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Lawmakers in both political parties questioned why Trump renewed his call for the travel ban, pointing out that it was supposed to be a temporary policy designed to buy time for the U.S. to develop stricter vetting policies for foreign travelers.
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"This will once again mean we are back to the old days when banks and companies used to delay debt resolution, with each one trying to buy time," said one banker handling non-performing accounts at a state-run bank.
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Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire had given the Italians until Thursday to accept an offer for 50/50 ownership of the shipyard, brandishing the threat of a temporary nationalisation to buy time to find another solution if the offer were rebuffed.
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Years of failed negotiations, most notably during the 2003-2009 Six-Party Talks, indicate the North's long-standing pattern of offering talks in exchange for resources, aid, a loosening of sanctions — or to simply buy time for its nuclear program.
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Seoul, South Korea (CNN)South Korea pressed ahead with talks to include its northern neighbor in next month's Winter Olympics Wednesday, but Seoul's allies are voicing concern Pyongyang may be using the talks to buy time to pursue its weapons program.
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Even lowering a flood stage by a fraction of a foot can in many cases buy time — for farmers to move their cattle, for instance, or for a town to shore up its flood protection or evacuate the area if necessary.
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Even as Mr. Newsom announced the nation's first statewide stay-at-home orders last week — meant to buy time for the state to prepare for a flood of patients — it became clear that too many people were ignoring the directive.
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Even as Mr. Newsom announced the nation's first statewide stay-at-home orders last week — meant to buy time for the state to prepare for a flood of patients — it became clear that too many people were ignoring the directive.
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But Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, who first bid for Fox assets last fall, won't make a new move unless a federal judge approves AT&T's plan to buy Time Warner; a decision in that case is due by June 12.
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Two sources close to the matter said TIM was trying to buy time, with one saying it was unlikely to make any decisions on the network before national elections due by May 2018 which are expected to yield a government change.
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Health officials are working to confine outbreaks to small geographic clusters, which would limit the impact on the nation's health care system and buy time for the development of a vaccine, an effort that could take a year or longer.
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Choi Moon-soon of Gangwon province told CNN that both sides need to buy time, and the key to doing so is simple: reopen Mount Kumgang, a serene tourist destination only a half hour drive from the demilitarized zone (DMZ).
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To buy time, the company recalled Volkswagens in the United States for an update of the engine software in early 2015, even though Mr. Schmidt and others knew that change would not bring the cars into compliance, according to the complaint.
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Such seemingly benign "progress" in inter-Korean relations will make Washington and Tokyo nervous, as the new fuzzy atmospherics will allow Kim to buy time and funds with which to perfect his weapons, while painting Trump as the perpetually petulant party.
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Two plays later, from the 5, Rodgers shifted from side to side in the pocket to buy time, took a few steps left and threaded the ball to Adams in the end zone, with cornerback Coty Sensabaugh tight in coverage.
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"Our goal remains to contain the coronavirus as long as and well as possible to prevent more people falling ill and thus buy time until there is an effective therapy against the virus," the governor of Tyrol province, Guenther Platter, said.
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That would cheer a broad coalition of lawmakers who are aghast at the likely economic fallout of a no-deal exit, along with those who want to buy time for a second public vote on whether Brexit should happen at all.
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Asked by prosecutors why he did not shoot McDonald, McElligott, who had followed McDonald on foot with his gun drawn, said McDonald did not move directly toward him and he was trying to buy time for a Taser to arrive.
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"The bottom line is that as long as the Chinese government is able to prevent deflation, (they can) buy time in order to fix some of the structural problems such as overcapacity, the economic outlook of China is not entirely pessimistic," he said.
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He might ask whether Kim truly is interested in eliminating North Korea's nuclear weapons in return for food, energy assistance, and fruitful economic relationships with the world community – or simply stringing us along to buy time, as he has in the past?
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Pessimistic take: The Chinese side has no intention of agreeing to most of the US demands for structural changes and instead will try to buy time with promises of more headline purchase deals and vague and unenforceable commitments to deeper changes; i.e.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The state of Massachusetts on Tuesday asked its top court to find that state authorities lack the authority to detain illegal immigrants who come in contact with the legal system to buy time for federal authorities to take them into custody.
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AT&T on Saturday officially announced plans to buy Time Warner for more than $85 billion, or $107.50 per share, in a cash-and-stock deal, bringing together a wireless, broadband and satellite TV giant with a content powerhouse in movies and television.
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While the industry continues to promote bots as a panacea for everything from app development to reducing headcount, companies are quietly employing human labor to buy time while developers attempt to implement AI solutions that can work autonomously and scale as promised.
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AT&T, the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier, struck a deal in October 2016 to buy Time Warner, which owns the premium channel HBO, movie studio Warner Bros and news channel CNN, in order to compete by bundling mobile service with video entertainment.
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Since AT&T announced its intention to buy Time Warner last weekend, the conventional wisdom has been that WPCH is the only major broadcast license asset involved in this case, and hence the only rationale for the FCC to review the deal.
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Russia has come under criticism for not ceasing air strikes in Syria since the Munich agreement and has faced accusations that it was using lengthy and complex Syria diplomacy only to buy time to turn the tide of the war on the ground.
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Russia wants to strike a short-term deal with Kiev on gas transit to Europe when the current 10-year agreement expires in order to buy time to complete pipelines that will bypass Ukraine, according to Reuters sources and high-ranked officials.
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It is those measures that are expected to reach their limits in the coming months, potentially leading the U.S. to default on its debts, though it could buy time by postponing payments for other government services, such as employee paychecks, to begin with.
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Although Kirby is deflecting credit for the measure, UGA is obviously over the moon with this new three month window to operate in secret and buy time to build a case and cover up their tracks should shit ever hit the fan.
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The telecommunications giant agreed on Saturday to buy Time Warner, the home of HBO and CNN, for about $85.4 billion, creating a new colossus capable of both producing content and distributing it to millions with wireless phones, broadband subscriptions and satellite TV connections.
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Asked about suggestions from May that Britain could pursue a two-year transitional deal once it leaves the bloc in 2019 in order to buy time to clinch a more comprehensive agreement, Merkel said this was not the primary focus for now.
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Officials and analysts disagree about whether Mr. Kim's recent outreach represents a real move toward dismantling his nuclear arsenal or a short-term ploy to confuse his enemies, gain relief from international sanctions and buy time to advance his arms programs further.
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Officials and analysts remain unsure whether Mr. Kim's offer represents a fundamental shift toward dismantling his nuclear arsenal or a short-term ploy to confuse his enemies, ease sanctions and buy time to further advance his nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile programs.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea could buy time to build up and refine its nuclear arsenal, including a warhead able to survive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, if it manages to drag out any talks with Washington, U.S. officials and experts say.
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Officials have described the stay at home orders as an aggressive way to reduce infections and buy time to stock up on medical supplies like ventilators and masks to confront what they expect to be a surge in need for hospital beds.
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The officials cautioned that history suggested North Korea has agreed to talks to buy time for more research out of sight of U.S. reconnaissance and to seek food and other aid from South Korea to offset the effects of tightening international sanctions.
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Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed to buy time for Saudi Arabia Thursday, urging patience as they conduct an investigation into the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi and leaving open the possibility the White House will do little or nothing in response.
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An article on Friday about a meeting between Donald J. Trump and AT&T's chief executive, Randall Stephenson, misstated the nature of CNN's reporting this week that brought criticism from Mr. Trump, as AT&T aims to buy Time Warner, which owns CNN.
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President Donald Trump appeared to stress on Saturday that he had not intervened in AT&T's bid to buy Time Warner — nor did he seek to require that the companies sell CNN in order to obtain the U.S. government's approval of the deal.
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In 103, under President Richard M. Nixon, it expanded into full-fledged carpet-bombing, meant to buy time for United States troops to pull out of South Vietnam, while halting the advance of the ultra-Communist Khmer Rouge rebels fighting the Cambodian government.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended higher on Tuesday, boosted by gains in the technology and utilities sectors, and shares of media and telecom companies jumped in extended trade after AT&T won court approval to buy Time Warner.
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The news caps off a week of speculation after it was reported last week that AT&T was eyeing up the company for about $1.6 billion, and it comes just weeks after AT&T closed its deal to buy Time Warner for nearly $85 billion.
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MOSCOW/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia wants to strike a short-term deal with Kiev on gas transit to Europe when the current 10-year agreement expires in order to buy time to complete pipelines that will bypass Ukraine, four sources familiar with Russian thinking said.
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At one point, Mnuchin noted "there were certain things that I'd have the power to do to postpone this," an apparent reference to the "extraordinary measures" regularly deployed by the Treasury Department to buy time under the borrowing cap until Congress passes an increase.
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As a result, Congress could end up passing a pure funding bill, or at least agreeing on top-line spending numbers and a short-term funding measure to buy time to work out the actual bills, but kick every other can down the road again.
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Merger and acquisition activity spurred Wall Street, headed by Saturday's announcement by telecommunications company AT&T Inc that it plans to buy Time Warner Inc for $85.4 billion in what would be the biggest deal in the world this year if approved by regulators.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seven consumer advocacy groups wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday to ask him to consider blocking AT&T's plan to buy Time Warner on the grounds that it will lead to higher prices and slow innovation in showing video online.
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The dispute could be a public relations blow to AT&T, which is heading back into court in December when oral arguments begin in the DOJ's appeal of the antitrust decision approving the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier's $85 billion deal to buy Time Warner.
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Officials and analysts remain unsure whether Mr. Kim's offer signals a fundamental shift toward dismantling his nuclear arsenal or represents a short-term ploy to confuse his enemies, ease sanctions and buy time to further advance his nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile programs.
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Shutting them down can be a key part of slowing the spread of easily transmissible viruses so that hospitals are not overrun with sick people, and it can help to buy time to allow for the development of antiviral medications, medical treatments or a vaccine.
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They were thwarted when the Department of Justice and the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) refused to allow them to buy Time Warner Cable, so now they have to look overseas and Sky is a great platform for them to be able to build overseas.
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BUSINESS DAY An article on Friday about a meeting between Donald J. Trump and AT&T's chief executive, Randall Stephenson, misstated the nature of CNN's reporting this week that brought criticism from Mr. Trump, as AT&T aims to buy Time Warner, which owns CNN.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department and AT&T Inc on Friday presented starkly different futures for online video if the wireless and pay-TV giant is allowed to buy Time Warner Inc, as they laid out their cases for a blockbuster antitrust trial.
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Anne Poulin, a law professor at Villanova University who is unconnected to the case, said that filing a lawsuit of this kind while a related criminal case was ongoing was unusual, and that the Pennsylvania lawsuit could be an alternate attempt by Mr. Cosby to buy time.
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All of which is to say that AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, who is currently paid less than Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes, and his team of executives have a perfectly good reason to want to buy Time Warner — whether or not it makes business sense.
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Trump told reporters Tuesday that he has been "involved" in the negotiations for a short-term solution "so that we don't have this very dangerous little period, including dangerous period for insurance companies," adding that a deal would buy time for larger negotiation to overhaul Obamacare.
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The leader of the National Assembly, who has been recognized as Venezuela's legitimate interim president by more than 50 countries since late January, said that any talks must lead to a solution of the crisis and must not be used by Maduro's government to buy time.
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Leading US politicians from both parties suggested on Sunday that AT&T's blockbuster $85 billion plan to buy Time Warner could face a daunting road toward regulatory approval, as public interest advocates ramped up warnings of higher pay-TV prices for consumers if the merger goes through.
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MOSCOW/BRUSSELS, July 26 (Reuters) - Russia wants to strike a short-term deal with Kiev on gas transit to Europe when the current ten-year deal expires in order to buy time to complete pipelines that will bypass Ukraine, four sources familiar with Russian thinking said.
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To buy time, North Korea may offer moderate and temporary concessions to limit its nuclear or missile tests programs, offer purely symbolic steps hoping the president will accept them and declare victory for the US, or may try to bog down negotiators in complex technical discussions.
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Sprint and T-Mobile announced their deal at the same time that AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner, Disney is attempting to acquire $52 billion of Fox assets, and Comcast has overbid Fox to buy U.K.-pay TV provider Sky for about $31 billion.
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All sides agree that Mr. Trump — in conversations with Mr. Alexander and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader — strongly encouraged the bipartisan talks and initially seemed to embrace the agreement to restore the subsidies as a way to buy time for another repeal push.
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Right now, the players are focused on the work at hand, and until that first cut, they all know they have the same opportunity as every player in camp: to make the team, make history, and for those at the end of their careers, buy time.
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As the U.S. braces for cases of the coronavirus to rise through the country, Americans are preparing to hunker down and withdraw from society in a bid to avoid infection — or at least buy time for a medical system that may be stretched beyond its limits.
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In the meantime, people should do everything they can to isolate and remain indoors in order to help buy time for the healthcare system to develop treatments that can mitigate the impact of the disease, and eventually, ways to introduce immunity in order to block its transmission.
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Ultimately, if the technique does evolve as Tisherman envisages, it will simply become the next step for treatment after CPR has failed, used to buy time and prevent brain death in almost any situation where a person's heart has stopped and can't be re-started quickly.
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Silvio Berlusconi, the head of Forza Italia, needs to buy time: he hopes to wrest back the leadership of the right-wing camp from Mr Salvini and is waiting for the outcome of an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against his conviction for tax fraud.
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Some critics and diplomats believe China's sudden interest in the code after 15 years of delays is to drag out the negotiating process to buy time to complete its strategic objectives in the South China Sea, through which more than $3 billion of ship-borne trade passes annually.
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The deal was made 10 days after Comcast agreed to buy Time Warner, which would have made it the biggest provider of broadband in the US. The pending acquisition would have allowed Comcast to completely stonewall Netflix in some of the biggest US cities if it wanted to.
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After the news that AT&T had a deal to buy Time Warner for $85 billion, entrepreneur, sports owner and part-time Donald Trump thorn Mark Cuban tweeted back at me after I posted a Politico story about Democratic VP candidate Tim Kaine expressing possible opposition to it.
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The framework for mid-April's talks will be set so Japan can reach a deal quickly on less contentious issues and spend time on more problematic items like trade, allowing it to buy time if faced with harsh U.S. demands, say government officials with knowledge of the preparations.
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"The North Koreans are cheating again, putting up this show so they can buy time and ease sanctions, never intending to abandon their nuclear weapons," said Kim Chang-guk, 533, who joined other older citizens in downtown Seoul on a recent weekend to protest the inter-Korean summit meeting.
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Some U.S. and South Korean officials said a breakthrough on the Trump administration's top national-security challenge remained unlikely after the failure of previous talks, adding that North Korea may be trying to buy time to develop its weapons programs and seek relief from punishing American and U.N. sanctions.
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" The surprise stemmed in part from comments last year from the head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, Makan Delrahim, who said in a TV interview shortly after the deal was announced that he did not view AT&T's plan to buy Time Warner as "a major antitrust problem.
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So, if number-two wireless carrier AT&T can buy Time Warner, that puts more pressure Sprint and T-Mobile to come together — size is crucial in the capital expenditure-heavy wireless business, especially as companies spend tens of billions on wireless spectrum through government auctions and corporate acquisitions.
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But research has demonstrated that the creation of large, fully protected marine reserves can play an important part in helping to regenerate ocean life and buy time in an age of climate change, if we can set aside key areas before they become overfished and degraded by warming waters.
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It seems more likely however, that the North Korean leader is either seeking to play off Washington against Seoul, or to buy time for his engineers to perfect the heat shield on the intercontinental ballistic missile that could deliver a nuclear weapon to US shores and complete his arsenal.
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The hope is that, along with radical action by governments and the public to decrease the number of new cases, reduced spread during warmer weather would give health systems space to cope with the initial influx of coronavirus patients, and buy time for a potential vaccine to be developed.
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That's why many media analysts were surprised in 2010 when CBS let the right-wing Christian organization Focus on the Family buy time for a commercial featuring Pam Tebow, the mother of quarterback Tim Tebow, pointing viewers to a longer version of her pro-life/anti-abortion message.
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Lawrence L. Herman, a Toronto trade lawyer and former Canadian diplomat, said Canada's only strategy this week is to essentially buy time — showing a willingness to negotiate more aggressively — making it unlikely that Congress would accept any request from the Trump administration to accept a trade agreement without Canada.
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WASHINGTON — Randall L. Stephenson, AT&T's chief executive, said on Friday that the company had made a "big mistake" by hiring President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, to provide advice on federal policy, including how the government might approach the telecommunications giant's deal to buy Time Warner.
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The government cites violence in the Kasai as one reason not to hold a vote this year, but critics accuse the president — who has already been in power for 16 years — of trying to buy time to allow him to change the Constitution and run for a third term.
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Not later, but right now, because we are already out of time in terms of the harm already inflicted on the planet: "My active and radical hope is that we will do all kinds of amazing things to reduce harm, buy time and save what we can," he said.
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Goldman missed out on an advisory role on telecom giant AT&T's deal to buy Time Warner Inc for $85.4 billion because of its perceived conflict stemming from advising media mogul Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc two years ago, when it made a failed bid for Time Warner.
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I buy time-sensitive Christmas presents — a custom ornament for my brother in the shape of his new puppy, a 3-D topo relief of a mountain I climbed this year with my dad, and a tablecloth from the region of Italy my mom traveled this year ($115.21).
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Others saw something more sinister in the decision, saying it was an attempt to buy time or a few weeks of peace ahead of October 1, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, a celebration Beijing will not want overshadowed by Hong Kong protests.
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Fierce opponents of AT&T's $86 billion bid to buy Time Warner now find themselves in an awkward political bind: They're rejoicing over the fact that the U.S. government shares some of their doubts about the deal — but fear that President Donald Trump might have interfered in the process.
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AT&T also issued a three-year outlook, which includes paying off all of the debt it took on to buy Time Warner, making no major acquisitions, selling off unimportant assets, adding two new directors to its board, and just generally making more money, which is ultimately what Elliott wanted.
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The agreement by wireless and pay-television giant AT&T to buy Time Warner, owner of Warner Bros, HBO and a trove of hit films and TV shows, is the biggest bet yet that the future of media will be dictated by massive companies that best marry distribution with content.
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AT&T is gearing up to buy Time Warner for $303 billion and though it's assured there wouldn't be any changes to HBO or CNN content, there's talk of curating shows such as Game of Thrones "uniquely" for mobile environments, namely by shrinking the 60-minute episodes to 20-minute installments.
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On that point, the Washington Post's Philip Rucker and the New York Times's Maggie Haberman said they were told differently Monday night: I was told last night by a Sr WH official that Flynn made his own decision to resign & Trump was "hanging in there" with Flynn to buy time.
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WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - In a preview of arguments in the upcoming trial over AT&T's deal to buy Time Warner Inc, government lawyers said on Tuesday it will raise prices for consumers while AT&T's lawyer argued the company has no reason to withhold programming from competitors as feared.
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WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The United States has urged South Korea and Japan to consider signing a "standstill agreement" on a simmering diplomatic dispute over trade in high-tech materials and other thorny issues to buy time for the countries to negotiate further, a senior U.S. official told reporters on Tuesday.
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If he knows that he has broken the law, then he may prefer to buy time and take his chances with the established constitutional mechanisms for removing or limiting the power of a president, rather than face the greater certainty that an unimpeded investigation by Mr. Mueller will reveal the truth.
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While many communities will seek to rebuild their destroyed levees, conservation groups say the repairs only buy time before the next inevitable flood comes along, and that local and federal governments should more seriously consider relocating to higher ground and placing levees and development farther away from rivers and their floodplains.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips' plan to sell its stake in an oil find off Senegal to Woodside Petroleum hit a speed-bump on Tuesday as a junior partner attempted to buy time to pre-empt the deal at the same time it announced an increase in the size of the field.
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The North's own agenda certainly includes using talks to buy time for its weapons programs to proceed, try to extract bribes from the South to let the Olympics occur smoothly, blunt American temptations to strike militarily at targets of opportunity in the North, and certainly weaken the American alliance system.
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Days later, France and Britain pushed the UN Security Council for a quick resolution that would authorize a no-fly zone, but Clinton, still reluctant, chose instead to work with Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to buy time in which to build broader international support for the move.
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"It is our opinion that Marlin Bidco launched an offer for Shawbrook in order to buy time, as it faced a 5pm deadline to make an offer or walk away for at least six months," RBC Capital Markets analyst Peter Lenardos said, referencing UK Takeover Code's "put up or shut up" rules.
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Gudino bout was not great, largely because Gudino did all he could to avoid confrontation by running around the ring and dropping a knee to the floor just to buy time, Okolie showed maturity in targetting his opponent's body to slow him, before felling him multiple times with an array of punches.
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We also do not know what is motivating Kim, and whether his seeming reasonableness is real (the result of sanctions, Chinese pressure, internal problems) or a ploy to divide Washington from Seoul, get out from under sanctions, or buy time given the deterioration of his nuclear testing site (among other domestic challenges).
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However, Judge Richard Leon, who will decide if AT&T will be allowed to buy Time Warner, is unlikely to consider a report of potential wrongdoing by the wireless giant because it is irrelevant to the merger trial under way in Washington, said Seth Bloom, a veteran of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.
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As the last witness for the defense in the Justice Department's legal battle against AT&T's $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, Mr. Stephenson portrayed the 140-year-old phone giant as being in an existential crisis and in need of the deal with Time Warner to compete against tech companies.
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And House Republicans have already shown some discomfort with the measure, raising an arcane procedural objection that was seen by senators in both parties as a gambit to buy time while House leaders figure out an approach that would satisfy lawmakers who want to impose sanctions but not alienate the White House.
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Still, sensing the severity of the legislative threat from California, as well as from a handful of other states and Congress, the N.C.A.A. announced in May that it had convened a committee to consider changes — a tactic that supporters of the existing model hoped would buy time and stave off legislative action.
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"North Korea wants to do two things, it seems to me: first, buy time to continue to expand and improve its missile and nuclear force, and negotiate the terms by which it is accepted as a nuclear weapons power," said Vipin Narang, a nuclear affairs expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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On Saturday night, AT&T announced that it had agreed to buy Time Warner for about $85.4 billion, or $107.50 a share in cash and stock — about a 20173 percent premium to where Time Warner's stock was trading before reports of the merger talks, and well above the $85 a share Fox was offering.
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"If a dark-actor compromises a hospital's IoT systems, patient health could be at risk — and the value of a life pales in comparison to a ransom demand — so the potential of initial pay out by the hospital might be high because they need to buy time to remediate the infiltration," says Corero's Larson.
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Thus its tardy privacy pronouncements and long term proposals look rather more like an attempt to kick the issue into the long grass and buy time for Chrome to keep being used to undermine web users' privacy — instead of Google being forced to act now and close down privacy-hostile practices that benefit its business.
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Even if no war follows, if the whole diplomatic process breaks down and Kim simply uses it to buy time to further advance his nuclear and ballistic missile capability, we, as a nation, and our allies and friends in the region will have to reconcile to life under an even greater threat to our security.
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"If their plan is simply to buy time in order to continue building their arsenal, talks aren't going to get far at all because we've seen that movie before, we've seen it several times and we are not about to make the latest sequel in what would be a very bad ending," the official said.
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AT&T Inc has reached an agreement in principle to buy Time Warner Inc for about $22000 billion, sources said on Friday, paving the way for what would be the biggest deal in the world this year, giving the telecom company control of cable TV channels HBO and CNN, film studio Warner Bros and other coveted media assets.
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At the center of what lives and dreams an unmistakable and debtless intelligence or a cataclysm of unmanaged resources that could buy time as if it were being sold like a PowerBar or blank note pad: an unfinished categorizing of OTC suggestions could work my heart blue then yellow sky over the long drool of attractions their copious marginalia.
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"Iran is exploiting the civil-nuclear waivers from the Obama-Iran deal, which the Trump administration has continued to issue, to build up their nuclear program and buy time until the nuclear deal expires, leaving them with a full-blown unlimited civilian nuclear program," Cruz said in a statement last week reissued hours before Pompeo's Monday announcement.
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The Justice Department on Monday filed an appeal brief of a judge's ruling that allowed AT&T to buy Time Warner for $85 billion, arguing that the judge failed to properly evaluate how the merger would give AT&T too much leverage over its competition (and why AT&T would be motivated to use that leverage).
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Aging yet still forceful, he prowls the corridors of 10 Downing Street in a fog of cigar smoke, bitterly cognizant of the folly of placating Hitler yet knowing that he has no choice: Britain has only 20 fighter planes that work at high altitude, and Chamberlain desperately needs to buy time to allow his country to rearm.
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Most officials who have been fired of late have been ensnared by the broad crackdown on corruption by Mr. Xi. Mr. Xi appears to be betting now that in heeding public opinion and replacing Mr. Xiao in such a high-profile fashion he can buy time to limit damage to the party's reputation from the stock market mess and the broader economic slowdown.
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EU officials said the extra two years of transition would buy time for talks about a future free trade agreement, but poured cold water on the idea of extending the exit negotiations beyond that period with a view to keeping Britain within the EU. "I don't think anyone foresees an extension of the existing negotiation period," the EU official said.
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LARRY FINK WAS ON, BLACKROCK, "SQUAWK BOX" EARLY THIS MORNING TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE RAMIFICATIONS OF NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES AND LOW INTEREST RATES, SAYING THAT THEY COULD SEW THE SEEDS FOR THE NEXT CRISIS, AND THEY ALSO BUY TIME FOR GOVERNMENTS TO DELAY FISCAL POLICY ARE WE ADDICTED TO MONETARY LAGARDE: WHAT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT IS THAT MONETARY POLICY BE NOT ALONE.
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Aging demographics, high levels of debt to GDP, other issues that could primarily be addressed through structural changes including fiscal policy – and so I think these lower rates around the world and the actions of some of the central banks buy these countries' time, but they really buy time to other actions they are going to have to address the structural issues.
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We watched our tiny baby hooked up to a ventilator in the ICU after a surgery to remove his bile ducts and gallbladder and connect his small intestine directly to his liver (a procedure designed to buy time and allow babies to hold on to their native livers as long as possible) and tried to wrap our minds around what came next.
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Her latest research suggests some people feel a sense of guilt about using money to buy time, even when they can afford it, because most time-saving services are things you can live without or do yourself Instead of letting the guilt chip away at your happiness, Dunn has these three steps to help you make more effective money and time decisions.
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He added that North Korea was no longer interested in participating in the talks if the U.S. designs them to buy time rather than come up with tangible solutions, according to the AP. Negotiations for a denuclearization deal first crumbled in February in Vietnam after the U.S. refused to lift sanctions for North Korea to partially relinquish its nuclear weapons.
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But Mr. Yaari also said that the Hamas leader in Gaza, Yehya Sinwar, has wanted to refocus the organization's energy on improving conditions there in part to buy time, to see what happens with the Palestinian Authority when the Trump administration discloses its vision for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and as the authority's aged president, Mahmoud Abbas, declines in health.
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Magellan markets the only FDA-approved lead-testing products in the U.S. Calpine (CPN) agreed to be bought by private equity firm Energy Capital Partners for $15.25 per share in cash, or about $5.6 billion AT&T's (T) deal to buy Time Warner (TWX) for $85 billion is near the final stages of its government review, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Now we really want to hear from these folks: Turner CEO John Martin oversees CNN, TNT and Time Warner's other cable properties, which means he already had a full plate before things got more complicated this fall: First by AT&T's proposed deal to buy Time Warner, and now by a future president of the United States who spends his evenings composing critical tweets about CNN.
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And while North Korea has hinted at an interest in talking to the United States — which it views as a threat and is one reason it thinks it needs a nuclear arsenal in the first place — it is not clear if the overtures are serious or a feint to buy time so the North can continue to perfect an intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit the United States.
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Are these announcements true confidence-building measures or tactics designed to buy time, ease sanctions and put President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE in a weakened position going into the talks?
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"Spending money on time saving purchases — like housecleaning, lawn-mowing and task outsourcing — promotes happiness by protecting people from the time-famine of modern life," Ashley Whillans, a professor at Harvard Business School and author of a study on money and happiness, tells CNBC Make It. "Both the most and least wealthy individuals we studied derived benefits from spending money to buy time," meaning it has "broad benefits for well-being," she says.
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Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he had breakfast Tuesday with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and suggested the certification was done to buy time as the administration works out a longer-term plan to counter Iran.
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"So Kim Jong Un by doing this, by putting on this elaborate show through a period of provocation that he's a new man, he's a legitimate global statesman with whom the U.S. can engage and do nuclear business, not only does he affect a dramatic image makeover but, more importantly, Kim is able to buy time and money to do what he really wants to do, which is to further advance his nuclear and missile, his menacing capabilities," said Lee.
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Now, with three and a half weeks until the Iowa caucuses, presidential campaigns that spent much of 2015 wooing donors and amassing large amounts of money are spending that money hand over fist, feverishly vying to buy time during every popular show from morning to late-night TV. From Sunday to Thursday alone, according to Kantar, candidates and their allies in both parties spent an estimated $5.9 million on television ads — roughly a third of what was spent in the 2012 Republican race from the beginning of 2011 through the Iowa caucuses.
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"Of the 10 largest previously announced deals which had more than a one-year period from their announcement date, in seven occurrences the S&P 500 gained while in three instances the index retreated in the one-year period following the deal announcement," according to the report published Monday following the announcement of AT&T's deal to buy Time Warner, the third-largest ever announced U.S. M&A transaction on record, trailing behind AOL's acquisition of Time Warner in 2000 and Verizon Communication's acquisition of Cellco Partnership in 2013.
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