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Prosecutors said the deal wasn't legitimate because Enron had promised to take Merrill out of the deal within six months at a prede termined profit.

U.S. Won't Seek Retrial of Former Merrill Lynch Official in Enron Case 2010

WELLINGTON WEBBWebb, who wears tennis shoes even with suits, took a laughingstock of an airport from his prede - cessor and helped get it open.

City Slickers 2008

His progress was notably slower than that of his prede-cessor.

The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

Building on the foundations prepared by his highly admired prede - cessor, Ptolemy was able to complete the edifice of ancient cosmology.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968

At this mo - ment there came into existence a violent anti-Platonic literature which made Plato appear as the true prede - cessor of the detestable Rousseau.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968

At best meta - physical beliefs can only be dogmatically, rather than demonstratively, maintained, as were in fact, Kant held, the beliefs of his immediate rationalist prede - cessors of the Wolffian school in Germany.

METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968

In theology, as in so much of its life, the twentieth century has been in sharp revolt against its prede - cessor — as the nineteenth was against the eighteenth.

IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800 LANGDON GILKEY 1968

But, unlike his Damascene prede - cessor, Copernicus did not use a second epicycle for the sun; he retained eccentric orbits; and his numerical results also differed, being based in part on his own observations.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968

Like his prede - cessor, Babbitt sought too neat a compartmentalization not only of art forms but of genre.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN GRAHAM 1968

Each of the yugas differs from its prede - cessor much as the Ages of Hesiod did, in that wicked - ness and general evil grow greater.

CYCLES GEORGE BOAS 1968