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...Two procurement officials who spoke to the Financial Times said some leeway remained to buy computers with foreign processors and Microsoft Windows....
...Revlon said permissive loan covenants provided leeway to create, or drop down, a new subsidiary that in turn borrowed $880mn from Angelo Gordon and others....
...Most of the time, it intentionally gives plenty of leeway to directors, so long as they follow basic governance edicts and do not steal money. “This has just not happened before....
...A steep loss in 2022 means it has less leeway to spend. Didi has long posited robotaxis as the future. Xpeng invests in autonomous car technology....
...Active managers have more leeway to decide what factors to use when deciding which companies to buy....
...The outcome, which followed lobbying against stronger goals by countries including China, was criticised for offering the industry too much leeway to delay decarbonisation....
...travails were chronicled in a best-selling book, Barbarians at the Gate, which details the company’s $30bn takeover of RJR Nabisco and the pulverising tactics that earned it a reputation as a Wall Street wrecking...
...Such investor demands were common to “pandemic stocks which were given leeway” during the years of low interest rates, he added....
...“Those were awkward conversations because I had no leeway to make any exceptions.”...
...It also gave the banks more leeway to make capital-depleting deals, with PNC acquiring the US business of BBVA for $11.6bn in 2021, and US Bank snapping up MUFG Union Bank....
...The court ruling also allows the FTC to bring a case to block the acquisition in the future, giving the watchdog even more leeway to use the process to stall the deal, deSouza said....
...State pension funds must notify the comptroller of their direct and indirect holdings, but Texas law provides some leeway over shares and mutual funds marked for divestment....
...Pro-social salvage can operate at slimmer margins, and often on donated land, which gives it greater leeway....
...In another sign of their willingness to plough money into Musk’s bid, Morgan Stanley and Japanese lender MUFG, which owns a 21 per cent stake in the Wall Street bank, had leeway from their credit committees...
...With oil and gas prices soaring this year, market watchers will be keeping a close eye on whether bumper profits lessen the investor pressure and buy energy executives some leeway on the climate front....
...For Kerr’s marine coatings business, however, the pressures are greater as there is little leeway to pass costs on quickly as the price to paint a superyacht is agreed with shipyards about two years in advance...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 17 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...Coronavirus digest The OECD has said the global economy will return to pre-pandemic levels by 2022, giving governments leeway to scale back emergency support and focus on investing....
...General Electric and IBM might struggle to get that kind of leeway, particularly as declines in cryptocurrencies must run through income statements. Still, customer interest in cryptos is rising....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 7, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...The company made post-tax profits of £22.7m in 2019, but Daunt said that, while he wanted to improve pay eventually, he would not jeopardise Waterstones’ finances, or reduce his leeway to pay senior employees...
...There might be just enough scientific leeway, and encroaching danger, to reasonably discuss bending the rules to deploy all Covid-19 vaccine doses now. Christmas approaches. Infection rates are rising....
...There is little leeway for extra costs. Worse, NTT’s free float is limited by local laws that require the government to hold at least one-third of its shares....
...While the two businesses are surely worth more to local players than to Citi, ready buyers with regulatory leeway cannot be simply magicked up....
...At 6ft 5in and 18 stone, Itoje has been described as a “one-man wrecking ball”, but that doesn’t do justice to his talents....
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