outstanding
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Fitch cited a “rising discord between the project parties over outstanding claims and obligations, even though the project is 99.6% complete and both parties have economic incentives to complete it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
In fact in the case of the 2012 Lucasfilm purchase, Disney was buying back stock at such a clip that its total shares outstanding dropped that year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
NHS medical director Prof Frankie Swords praised the "outstanding professionalism" of staff and said the situation was making delivering care challenging.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
But we got to a point where, as a result of share buybacks and stock swaps, the number of shares outstanding in PLC went down and the number of shares in Carnival Corp. went up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Remarkably, several former juvenile lifers had developed outstanding institutional histories with very few disciplinaries, even though they did their time with no hope of ever being released or having their institutional history reviewed.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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