At the meeting shareholders will vote on resolutions to restrict the ability of the bank's board to dispose of assets.

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High valuations and the reluctance on the part of cash-rich corporations to dispose of assets have offset the wave of cheap money, leaving private-equity firms more willing to sell than to buy.

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In those circumstances, Royal Bank of Scotland would be fearful that it could be forced to dispose of additional assets, because its share of the small-business banking market will still be a fraction under 25%, even after it completes a disposal of 318 branches and other assets to Santander next year.

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Yet the great breakthrough of the register is that, for the first time, departments are being given an incentive to dispose of surplus assets.

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But he was itching to leave again and did so after Pharmaco sold the rights to its beverage brands and asked Thor's dad to dispose of the assets.

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Schumer proposed the return of an idea from the Depression: a Reconstruction Finance Corp. that would inject capital into banks through stock purchases, leaving it to the banks to dispose of troubled assets.

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In October, the Financial Times reported that in addition to selling-off non-core assets in Canada, VimpelCom is also looking to dispose of its non-core assets in Sub-Saharan Africa, Laos, and Cambodia.

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It would only be able to dispose of banks' assets once they had gone bust.

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Nokia says it is looking into selling its headquarters as part of a drive to dispose of non-core assets.

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Set the RTC with needed funds to operate and dispose of the assets, in conjunction with private enterprise train brokers.

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The write down needs to occur and the movement of toxic assets to the RTC at a market rate, allowing the RTC to quickly dispose of properties or renegotiate as seems best will bring stability and increased activity to the markets, including the mortgage market.

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