Now they're mired in a mess of Tax Court cases, with the IRS demanding millions.
Certainly, Portugal exploited and neglected its colony, and left it in a mess in 1975.
At the head office building there was no water in our 18-storey building and the toilets were in a mess.
However, the commission says that the state's share will stay at 60%, because the private sector is in a mess.
Prior to that, McDonald's was in a mess following the mad cow crisis, along with criticism of its unhealthy menu.
That may lead other foreign banks to withdraw their money from Vietnam, leaving the joint stock banks in a mess.
It might've made more sense to side-mount the key on the device, but that could've resulted in a mess of unintended triggers.
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Most public firms are in a mess, over-staffed and deep in debt.
But there is little sign of things being done: the city's schools, health services, housing and public transport are all in a mess.
Mr Reivytis also told the court that he asked Mr Gamla why the house was in a mess and also asked where his flatmate was.
One worry is that the public finances are in a mess, which might undermine confidence among foreign investors who hold a third of all gilts.
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Kuyt had a better chance to add to the tally when he got his feet in a mess after Sorensen palmed Gerrard's drive to the forward.
So it is sad to report that the American right is in a mess: fratricidal, increasingly extreme on many issues and woefully short of ideas, let alone solutions.
Oh, and did we mention that the main selling point is an attachable game controller that frames half the tablet in a mess of plastic buttons, joysticks, and speakers?
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There was frustration at public sector wage reductions and the termination of many benefits, although at a grass roots level it was accepted that the economy was in a mess.
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Those in southern California especially are in a mess.
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Ruddock was more dismissive of criticism in Thomas' book that he had not clamped down on players' personal standards, with dressing rooms left in a mess, bar bills going unpaid and half-full water bottles being discarded.
The economy is buoyant, the country has joined Europe's single currency, a lasting peace in the long-turbulent Basque country is in prospect, and the opposition, lacking a plausible new leader of its own, is in a mess.
Europe's patent system is also in a mess in another regard: the quilt of national patent offices and languages means that the cost of obtaining a patent for the entire European Union is too high, a burden in particular on smaller firms and individual inventors.
If America's Fed had done this and worried a bit more about bubbles, the world might not be in such a mess.
None of these authors focuses on why marriage, having endured so long, is now in such a mess.
So far Guinea has escaped much criticism of domestic repression, partly because its neighbours are in such a mess.
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