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The companies offered to divest all of Spirit’s businesses that currently supply Airbus with aerostructures to Airbus itself, and sell Spirit’s site in Malaysia to Composites Technology Research Malaysia.

The company’s “competitive outlook remains challenged with no discernible AI portfolio/strategy, uncompetitive server CPU, and less flexibility now vs. before in divesting loss-making manufacturing, in our view,” Arya wrote, referring to central processing units.

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Its parent, Tata Sons, sold 230 million shares in the IPO, while International Finance Corp. divested close to 36 million shares.

Steyer founded a hedge fund whose investments included massive fossil fuel projects, but after he learned of the environmental consequences of these financial decisions, he divested and has worked to fight climate change.

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In 1984, when many countries were divesting from apartheid South Africa, Queen brushed aside a United Nations boycott to play a string of shows at the Sun City resort and casino.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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