Under the agreement, Samsung will acquire all of Sony's shares of S-LCD Corporation ("S-LCD"), the two companies' LCD panel manufacturing joint venture, making S-LCD a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung.

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"No other venue offers immediate access to the evidence of liability that will come from the defendants in this case, " Transocean said in court papers filed Tuesday with the Joint Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in Washington D.

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Meanwhile, the joint review panel is pushing ahead with public hearings.

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High frequency traders will give their views on what happened in the markets during the May 6 crash on Tuesday afternoon during the second meeting of a joint investigative panel of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

FORBES: High Frequency Traders Face SEC/CFTC Panel

Patty Murray (D-WA), who will be the Democratic co-chair of the panel, formally known as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.

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The panel praised the two departments for issuing joint guidelines for managing PTSD, but it's unknown whether their providers adhere to the guidelines.

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The Senate Joint Economic Committee which Schumer chairs heard testimony on Wednesday from a panel of economists.

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Several programmes contribute to these efforts, including the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology ( JCOMM) and the Ocean Observations Panel for Climate ( OOPC).

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