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German ball-bearings maker Schaeffler Group disclosed plans to reduce its massive debt load by selling some of its controlling stake in auto supplier Continental AG that it acquired in an $18 billion hostile bid more than two years ago.

Schaeffler Cuts Continental Stake to Reduce Debt Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011

For the family-owned Schaeffler, the sale of 15% of Continental shares appears to be yet another retreat from the apparent coup the German ball-bearings maker pulled off in acquiring the much larger Continental a little more than two years ago.

Schaeffler Moves to Cut Debt Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011

"With a mesmerising variation of pace and stride, hips that oscillated as if on ball-bearings, and shoulders that shrugged and twisted through thickets of tackles, Lewis Jones's speciality was an Ali-like double shuffle, a scissoring movement of the legs which signalled, too late for his opponents, that he was about to move into a fifth gear."

My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating 2011

Schaeffler Group, the German ball-bearings giant, disclosed plans to reduce its massive debt load by selling some of its controlling stake in rival auto supplier Continental that it acquired in an $18 billion hostile bid more than two years ago.

Business Watch 2011

I don't think he meant McCain's ball-bearings were getting rusty, and I don't think he meant he was getting senile, which are the only two ways I can see that comment being age-related.

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Two bags of ball-bearings – the shrapnel of choice for suicide bombers – were found in one of his pockets

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Power Sport Industries Inc., a wholesaler of ball-bearings in New Berlinville, Pa., paid $850,000 in cash to mount a 123-kilowatt solar-panel system to its roof in October, says co-owner Marianne Durnall.

Businesses Wait for Green Energy Payback 2010

But aside from the ball-bearings run, and a hand in helping topple the pro-Nazi Yugoslav Prince Paul, SOE had precious little to show for itself.

Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

Power Sport Industries Inc. Power Sport Industries Inc., a wholesaler of ball-bearings in New Berlinville, Pa., mounted a 123-kilowatt solar-panel system in October.

Businesses Wait for Green Energy Payback 2010

But aside from the ball-bearings run, and a hand in helping topple the pro-Nazi Yugoslav Prince Paul, SOE had precious little to show for itself.

Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010