He brokered a 1989 deal to sell the works to Worthington Industries, but it fell through.

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Pringles has been put on the block several times now, and the company was close to selling it to Diamond Foods, but pulled out when the deal fell through.

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Built in France, the main structure was originally destined to be a railway station in Cairo, but the deal fell through and so the President of Haiti Florvil Hyppolite had it shipped over in 1891, and there it stood until it was destroyed by the earthquake of 2010.

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It originally fell around August, but the Christian conquistadors, hoping to assimilate the heathen holiday through their favoured tactic of cultural mestizaje (mixing), moved it to the day after All Saints' Day.

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It had been requesting financing from Geeley, the Chinese company that owns a 20-percent stake, but talks fell through.

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