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Members concluded the bid backed by tech billionaire Larry Ellison and Middle Eastern royal families was not in the best interest of the company or its shareholders.
From Los Angeles Times
Who knows how this series may have ended had England backed the Bethell-shaped feeling in their gut.
From BBC
Sir Alex was backed because the people at the club believed in him.
From BBC
In December, for example, Monroe backed a senior credit facility to support InTandem Capital Partners’ investment in The Phia Group, a Canton, Mass.-based provider of consulting and management services for health benefit plans.
CFS, which is backed by Gates’s technology fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures, says it is aiming to start producing commercial fusion energy in the 2030s.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
