Each new story appeared against a constant background of complaints about bosses being paid far too much not least GlaxoSmithKline's Jean-Pierre Garnier, who this week belatedly, and grudgingly, accepted a restructured pay package that would not reward him so well in the event of failure.
Along with growing pressure from investors, who want clearer rules on where they stand in the pecking order in the event of corporate failure, this could result in a more sensible, market-sensitive approach to bankruptcy throughout the European Union.
We have a contractual structure which we published in January last year, which sets out the requirement for the maintenance of a contestable framework and for us to have intervention rights in the event of supplier failure.
Now added to this is a GLA station in Dover that broadcasts corrections to eLoran that makes signals so precise ships can enter harbours using them in the event of GPS failure.
Asking too-big-to-fail banks to write resolution plans in the event of their failure is like giving an obese eater a free pass to neighborhood buffets and demanding that he draft a diet plan in case he dies.
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Following the collapse of a third of all American banks in 1930-33, the government set up an insurance scheme under which it guaranteed to repay depositors, up to a certain limit, in the event of bank failure.
Wells Fargo's revised policy takes back unpaid compensation awards in the event of misconduct, material error, failure to supervise or in the event the company or an individual executive's business group has a material downturn in financial performance or failure of risk management.
There will be a repair method in the event of a STB failure.
In the event of a technical failure or any other malfunction with the phone vote, the contingency arrangement is that the winner will be decided on the basis of the votes cast by the studio audience at the NEC, which has been subject to independent verification.
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Much of the work that will come out of this event will be to further protect the EBS service in the face of a similar failure in the future.
In fact, if there's a failure, the America policy was not to anticipate this kind of event four or five years ago.
Although some suggest Mr Romney has reason to be shy of boasting too much, he apparently used his business skills and a certain amount of flair to save an event that was deep in trouble: over budget and, in the minds of many, headed towards a failure that would humiliate America.
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