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SoftBank Group entities will retain a voting stake of about 91.8% after the offering, assuming underwriters don’t exercise their option to buy additional shares.
Airlines typically say they can pass fuel price increases on to consumers with a two-to- three-month lag, assuming demand remains healthy, according to Fitzgerald.
“At first, I had no idea who you were. I mean, I assumed you were somewhere nearby, but I didn’t think we went to the same school.”
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He led me quickly across the main atrium and down a hallway and into a tiny room I could only assume was his office.
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This estimate assumes no direct attacks on merchant shipping occur, yet any such strike would likely trigger major repercussions across global war insurance markets, Dylan Mortimer says.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.