Sentences with phrase «of the worst deals in»

If I remember right Liverpool spent 35 mil on Carroll in what is now recognized as one of the worst deals in their history.

Senators may also ask him about the international agreement to limit Iran's nuclear weapons program, which Trump has labeled one of the worst deals in history.

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that might result in an even «badder» deal than his predecessor signed with Iran or forcing him to storm out of the negotiations in a huff.

In these cases, eventually you get to a bad result - either because no deal gets done or - far worse - because the entrepreneur grudgingly and half - heartedly accepts a deal that he's unhappy with and angry about for what he thinks is the good of the business.

The banking system has been weak for years as most institutions have failed to deal with the high level of bad debt in the wake of the financial crisis.

In the study sample of 60 different inversion deals, approximately 15 - 20 percent of shareholders fell into this long - term investor category and were made worse off from the inversion.

These acquisitions may revive ailing towns» hopes of rescue by the rich, deals that got a bad rap after Kim Basinger bought Braselton, Ga., for US$ 20 million in 1989, then had to sell it to a developer four years later for just US$ 1 million.

The Treasury report concluded that all types of Brexit — from membership of the European Economic Area to crashing out without a deal — would be worse for the economy than staying in the bloc.

Plus, bad deals, real heroes and a comic recap of RIM's rotten year in our annual scorecard of the year that was.

In the latest twist in the legal battle, Ripple filed a counterclaim in New York state court that accuses R3 of signing the deal in bad faith, and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing producIn the latest twist in the legal battle, Ripple filed a counterclaim in New York state court that accuses R3 of signing the deal in bad faith, and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing producin the legal battle, Ripple filed a counterclaim in New York state court that accuses R3 of signing the deal in bad faith, and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing producin New York state court that accuses R3 of signing the deal in bad faith, and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing producin bad faith, and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing producin order to develop a competing product.

U.S., Mexican, and Canadian trade negotiators meet this week in Washington DC for the first of seven lightning rounds to reshape what Trump calls the «the worst trade deal» ever signed, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

In fact, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business once ranked O'Leary's deals among the 10 worst U.S. acquisitions from 1994 to 1996.

«You know I think the way we deal with the tax bill is by being honest about it, saying across time the very significant tax reductions for groups and parts of our economy that really weren't needed will hurt the fiscal condition of the country and put us in a bad position as it relates to other priorities we have,» Delaney said.

The most telling part of the deal is that Google will retain many of Motorola's patents as well as its advanced research and development unit, which is too bad in a way because it probably means we won't be seeing innovative phones like the Moto X from the new Lenovo - owned entity.

In spite of the logical need to modernize the 23 - year old agreement, we may end up with no deal or worse — the very real prospect of President Trump posing for the cameras to show off his signed executive order declaring America's intent to withdraw from NAFTA.

«NAFTA, which is under renegotiation right now, has been a bad deal for U.S.A. Massive relocation of companies & jobs,» the president said in a tweet Monday.

It has become reassuringly common to dismiss Trump's hyperbole as the hardball negotiating tactics dished out in his book The Art of the Deal — bluster that will eventually give way to some measure of compromise and an updated NAFTA — but the dire news trickling out from the talks is forcing a harsh rethink, and there's growing reason to fear the worst.

I sat in many tense meetings when the guys from Microsoft tried to give people amazing deals on Azure (which Microsoft eventually offered as a cloud alternative) and it was as if they were offering to give these people a bad case of acne.

Simply put, this Spruce Goose of a deal must be considered among the worst in the history of Manhattan real estate.

It's a threat the President has repeated on multiple occasions, having at various times called NAFTA the «worst trade deal in the history of the world» and «the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world» and all terrible points in between.

Bad leverage results in one person winning and the others losing — typically a consequence of working with bad people — whereas in good leverage situations, all parties can benefit from the outcome of the transaction or deBad leverage results in one person winning and the others losing — typically a consequence of working with bad people — whereas in good leverage situations, all parties can benefit from the outcome of the transaction or debad people — whereas in good leverage situations, all parties can benefit from the outcome of the transaction or deal.

In an unexpected move, the United States is upgrading Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking centers to the so - called «Tier 2 Watch list», a status that could smooth the way for an ambitious U.S. - led free - trade deal with Malaysia.

At Tim Hortons, where the company is dealing with the fallout of bad publicity from its reaction to minimum wage increases in the country, comparable sales fell 0.3 percent in the quarter.

You are now dealing with the executor of Aunt Irma's estate, who may be 1) a greedy relative who sees the «gift» as an investment for which the estate is entitled to a substantial piece of your business, 2) a local estate lawyer whose main purpose in life is to squeeze as many assets out of the estate as possible so as to maximize their fees, or 3) someone even worse.

One, [in] Afghanistan, the British had never been successful there; the Russians had 10 years there and hadn't been successful... Iraq, I know, was a different deal, because there was a lot of intelligence that told us that bad things could happen there, and we're never sure how that ended up, whether it was pro or con.

Sales and marketing writer Preston Clark explored this notion in a great piece, «The Rise of the Silent Sales Floor,» in which he discussed how the «soundless» sales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.»

He vowed to bring jobs back by renegotiating what he called bad multilateral trade deals in favor of bilateral ones.

For better or worse, this year's study hands a big talking point to the campaign of Top State Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia, a Republican touting his economic record in his bid for a second term.

The idea of paying more for privacy is unusual and would require a major shift to current thinking, but it might not be a bad deal in the grand scheme of things if it leads to keeping companies and governments out of our business.

The investors allege Platinum's deals in some 20 projects in Western Canada went bad not because of market conditions but corruption.

Olen: The first thing you have to understand is we're dealing with thirty years of a powerful ideology that regulation is bad in a free market.

If the worst thing that an airline has to deal with is a baggage worker falling asleep in an air - conditioned section of the cargo hold, then things are going well.

«What if I took some of the worst, most egregious terms in a standard term sheet and made them the defacto standard in most convertible debt deals?

And skeptics say the enormous Vision Fund could stumble into bad, overpriced deals as it tries to deploy tens of billions of dollars in a short period of time.

Why Goldman Sachs, which has had its own share of bad publicity over the years and always talks about being in the business of making sound judgments, would actively participate in a deal for a major gun retailer is baffling.

An economist at Oxford Economics recently told a Sydney audience that «Chinese authorities were understating the extent of bad loans on their banks» books and faced tough choices in dealing with the potential bank failure.»

Oâ $ ™ Leary was a failed and unethical businessman, who sold a sham of a company to Mattel, the toy manufacturer, in what Businessweek later called one of the worst deals of all time.

In this case, the somnambulism was based on misplaced optimism that trade negotiators would be able to solve the NAFTA problems, blithely ignoring the significance of President Donald Trump's repeated declarations that the agreement was the worst deal in history and constantly threatening to walk out unless the U.S. got what it wanted in the renegotiating procesIn this case, the somnambulism was based on misplaced optimism that trade negotiators would be able to solve the NAFTA problems, blithely ignoring the significance of President Donald Trump's repeated declarations that the agreement was the worst deal in history and constantly threatening to walk out unless the U.S. got what it wanted in the renegotiating procesin history and constantly threatening to walk out unless the U.S. got what it wanted in the renegotiating procesin the renegotiating process.

The Mexican population writ - large may not view NAFTA particularly favorably — many see it as a bad deal in a history of bad deals with its bullying northern neighbor.

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President Trump has renewed his criticism of the new US embassy in London, describing it as being in a «lousy» location and a bad deal.

One of the biggest and most common mistakes entrepreneurs make, which I have been guilty of myself, is not taking fast corrective action in dealing with a bad hire.

An amazing discussion that kicked off with big deal of the week, Walmart snapping up Jet.com for $ 3b, that crackled on to Google, the government, anti-trust, the entire U.S. debt problem, the Chinese Market, the very future of energy (featuring, naturally, Elon), and the latest in startup CEOs behaving badly.

Mr Trump... President Trump has renewed his criticism of the new US embassy in London, describing it as being in a «lousy» location and a bad deal.

According to Martin Zwilling in Business Insider, «This is the ultimate bad guy whose sole intention of getting involved in early - stage investing is to take advantage of what they believe is the entrepreneur's lack of financial and deal - making experience.

Congressional Republicans are rushing this through before anyone has a chance to grasp all of the bad stuff in it and before special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation possibly ensnares bigger fish than former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to a charge Friday as part of a plea deal.

In fact, across the stock market as a whole, if you had the bad misfortune to not be invested on a small number of days, you would have lost out on a great deal of the market's advances.

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During his bid for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump denounced the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as «the worst trade deal in history.»

Sitting on $ 4 trillion might not seem like a bad position to be in, but it can make a mess of domestic monetary policy if those reserves result from the central bank's attempts to deal with capital inflows.