Sentences with phrase «controversial deal of the year»

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The previous month, the media giant had announced, with great fanfare, that an upstart Internet service provider based in Northern Virginia would be appending its initials to the front of the Time Warner name in a monumental (and immediately controversial) corporate marriage — a deal that would close a year later, on January 11, 2001.

Mutually unpleasant cuts to military and social spending were a key feature of the 1985 Gramm - Rudman - Hollings budget deal during the Reagan years, although the success of these measures remains controversial.

Over the past few years, I've come to really appreciate McKnight's humility and gentleness, especially when dealing with controversial issues, and my impressions of The Blue Parakeet were no doubt influenced by my respect for its author.

Take international trade secretary Liam Fox and the controversial EU - Canada business deal CETA: after five years of secret negotiations on CETA, Fox signed the UK up to the deal by intentionally side - stepping parliamentary scrutiny.

And that's to say nothing of Democratic demands for a deal to help hundreds of thousands of Dreamers who face possible deportation next year, as well as a host of other controversial policy issues.

A de Blasio administration official inquired about the fate of a Lower East Side nursing home more than a year before the mayor said he learned of a controversial deal to convert it to high - end housing.

The controversial Netflix / Paramount deal for The Cloverfield Paradox happened one month into the new year, but it's bound to go down as one of the biggest industry stories of 2018.

«I don't think we've gotten a single complaint in the past year and a half dealing with the PowerUp program,» said P. Gayle Fallon, the president of the 6,000 - member Houston Federation of Teachers, which is currently involved in a lawsuit challenging the district's use of controversial statistical methods to gauge teacher performance.

Their despicable controversial handling of Infinity Ward, Harmonix and many other developers has labelled both the company and CEO as the industry's arch-villain (a role previously enjoyed by EA in years past)... and Bungie's shock partnership announcement seemed to be a deal with the devil.

One of the most controversial subjects in the report was how to deal with what appears to be a slowdown in warming if you look at temperature data for the past 15 years.