The bidders must now make a firm offer by 13 November, an extension to the original deadline of a fortnight.
Liverpool, however, are now expected to follow up their initial interest with a firm offer to link Ziege with two fellow German internationals at Anfield next season.
Should it become a firm offer, it should be at a price that "the board is likely to regard as fair" and on terms which "may be deliverable".
And going back to the survey that shows that 60-70% of people want a firm job offer.
Years ago I was asked to join a consulting firm and passed on the offer in a manner that offended everyone in the firm.
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After not receiving a corporate firm job offer in the downtrodden industry, Scott Greenwood, set to graduate this spring from the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, will instead work for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Castle Trust, a yet-to-be-authorised lender in Britain backed by JC Flowers, a private-equity firm, plans to offer savers investment products tied to a national house-price index.
The firm should offer a centralised opt-out tool and allow users to decide which of Google's services provided data about them.
Rio said that if the ruling was made, it would mean that BHP must "either announce a firm intention to make an offer... or announce that it does not intend to make an offer".
The UK firm will then launch a mandatory offer for a further 26% stake in the Indian group.
Nielsen's commercial data will offer those buyers a firm handle of who is and isn't watching the ads they're paying big bucks to air.
The purpose of a firm, she says, is to offer a home to its workers.
Just such an offer was made by a firm called Derivium Capital LLC.
Administration officials rushed to offer a waiver to the firm, fearing a stampede for the exit from other big employers of workers who are on low wages.
"Southeastern has been working hard to secure a better outcome for our clients through a superior offer or a rejection of the current bid, " the investment firm wrote in an April letter to its clients.
Of those who are staying, Low's options were the most unusual, as he has completed a law degree, has a part-time summer job with a firm of solicitors and has had an offer of more work.
He was fortunate among his classmates to get an offer from a major Wall Street firm.
The consumer-electronics firm has now been granted a licence to offer high-speed telecoms over its own circuits.
Public-relations staff say there was a misunderstanding and that the firm simply wants to offer equal opportunities to all.
The Takeover Panel's code says that a firm cannot say that it might improve an offer without actually doing so.
The internet-based firm allows clients to back a team or offer odds to other punters on the outcome of a match.
For years, this is what happened if you wanted to buy or sell a Nasdaq stock: Your buy order went to a market making firm, which charged you the offer side of the market, pocketing the difference between that price and the lower bid.
He has accumulated a 49% stake in Stallergenes, a European biopharmaceutical firm specializing in the treatment of severe respiratory allergies by allergen immunotherapy, and has made a tender offer for the rest of the shares.
You may want to do well for yourself, but you and your firm won't succeed unless you offer a product or service that people are willing to buy.
"With a new CEO, Avon's board firmly believes that there is greater opportunity to improve shareholder value in excess of Coty's conditional indication of interest, " the beauty firm said in a statement responding to Coty's offer.
Trinity Mirror said it was in talks over taking a minority stake in the new firm, but added that "no offer has been made".
Because towers take so long to plan and construct, the current crop reflect a vision up to a decade old, reckons Nick Offer of Arup, an engineering firm.
This latest offer represents a premium of just 6% to the firm's closing share price on 1 August, before BMI British Midland's "surprising" decision to withdraw Heathrow and East Midlands services from Belfast International, part of the TBI portfolio.
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