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...The pod was christened XLII, or 42 in Roman numerals, a reference to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which the number is said to be the answer to the meaning of life....
...The Bestwall motion cites the J&J ruling, saying it makes clear that financial distress is the first inquiry made before a company receives the benefits of bankruptcy....
...Gordon Brown in 2010, John Major in 1997 and Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 all held on until the last possible minute....
...J&J followed in the footsteps of Koch Industries subsidiary Georgia-Pacific, Trane Technologies and a US unit of France-based Saint-Gobain, which have all deployed the scheme....
...“Bankruptcy courts are for honest companies in financial distress, not billionaire mega-corporations like J&J, 3M and Koch Industries, that seek to close courthouse doors to their victims.”...
...In March a judge dismissed J&J’s first attempt to use the bankruptcy courts to manage claims that its talcum powder could cause cancer....
...Enter stage right, Douglas Wigdor, a lawyer who measured in dollars is the undisputed legal leader of the #MeToo movement....
...So we’re seeing that with the subsidiary of Koch Industries that we talked about. We also talked about 3M now emboldened by the apparent success of J&J’s LTL unit last year....
...He stood up for civilian control of government against the would-be warrior-king General Douglas MacArthur....
...And even at Electric Power Development (also known as J-Power), which rate the highest support rate among these companies for climate proposals submitted by non-governmental organisations and activist investors...
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Four weeks ago, Philip Dybvig, Douglas Diamond et al won the Riksbank Prize....
...“We’ve found that people are increasingly coming to the skilled trades after they go to college,” says the union’s general president Douglas J McCarron....
...The first of these cases was filed in 2017 by Georgia Pacific, a subsidiary of privately held Koch Industries which still faces billions of dollars of asbestos claims....
...Two high-stakes legal actions involving J&J and 3M should soon determine whether these strategies are legal....
...For resident Joe Douglas, representing his fellow leaseholders in the case, the battle is personal....
...The first company to use the Texas two-step was an affiliate of Georgia-Pacific, which is owned by the massive conglomerate Koch Industries....
...In deploying the Texas two-step, J&J followed the examples set by Koch Industries’ Georgia Pacific, the first to deploy the mechanism in 2017; Trane Technologies; and a US unit of France-based Saint-Gobain...
...J&J followed the examples set by Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific, the first to deploy the Texas two-step in 2017, Trane Technologies, and a US unit of France-based Saint-Gobain....
...J&J is not the first to use it: Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific tried it following asbestos claims; its bankruptcy is still pending in the courts....
...Penelope J Corfield is not so dismissive of the personal or philosophical disposition to concentrate on the brighter side of life....
...Jones Day is billing similar rates to Bestwall, an affiliate of Georgia-Pacific, which is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, and the first of four companies to deploy the bankruptcy scheme since 2017....
...The investment arm of Koch Industries bought a minority stake in 2018....
...“For the first time possibly ever, the kind of threat platform that the two countries are baselining their needs on is a Chinese aircraft — the Chengdu J-20,” he says....
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