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When we went to bed last night, it seemed like Stanley Ho was fighting his rival wives' attempts to divest him from his casino empire.

In addition, she said, banks could divest in an orderly way any investments they would no longer be able to hold.

Forcing AT& T to divest assets would not be enough to prevent "serious anti-competitive harms" , it added.

Pfizer was just ordered to divest its swine vaccine business as a condition to the approval of its merger with Wyeth.

The H-P plan also marks the second time the company has looked to divest a core business to keep up with the changing tech industry.

That action is now regarded as part of a broader government plan for SOEs to divest and thereby rein in fast-rising housing and land prices.

The lack of a face-to-face persona seems to divest the professor of some authority.

The decision to divest these product lines was made following a thorough review and evaluation of a number of strategic alternatives.

When a firm finds products or businesses that no longer fit its overall strategy, it must carefully prune, harvest or divest them.

This is a huge hypothetical - but let's play out the disastrous chain of events that would happen if China began to divest.

Provide assistance as necessary to enable the Housing Authority to divest through public listing its retail and car-parking facilities.

An exception was made for Mr. Summers, however, because the White House job he was taking required him to divest.

Mr Geithner is proposing to divest the Fed's consumer protection role and give it to a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

Bain Capital, the US private equity fund, is in talks to divest the north Asian business of Outback Steakhouse, a global restaurant chain.

Divest yourselves of those qualities, values or habits that have become redundant.

"If somebody would like to buy those assets, and offer a reasonable price, then they'd be happy to divest, " he said.

AIG is looking to divest AIA to raise up to $20bn to help repay the $60bn US government loan that is keeping the group alive.

The final step would be to force investment banks to halt pure proprietary trading and to divest their asset management arms.

Bain, a US private equity firm, was prepared to divest 3Com's Tipping Point unit, which sells security software to the government.

Body parts blocked the storm-drains, the beggars and children of the gutters quick to divest them of expensive jewellry and rich fabrics.

It is an interesting question how far men will retain their relative rank if they were divest of their clothes.

The parties agreed that Pfizer would divest specified swine vaccine brands within six months, to ameliorate competition concerns.

Companies always have the option to divest their Chinese operations rather than accept onerous conditions from Beijing.

But U. K. -based entertainment lawyer Ambi Sitham said it made sense for Madonna to divest herself of her British property.

In July it hired investment bankers, signalling that it is willing to divest assets to gain regulatory approval.

The maid helped to divest the old lady of her overcoat.

This is fact happened when Russia imploded and had to divest of her satellite countries.

State media reports have said Sasac will require state-owned enterprises to divest their non-core businesses within three years.

ING announced plans to separate its banking and insurance operations and divest its American online-banking arm.

Among those believed to be assessing whether to divest stakes is RBS, the UK bank which owns 5 per cent of Bank of China.

Ultimately, she says over time the government must divest itself of more state-owned businesses to allow the private sector to grow.

Twenty US states have decided to divest from companies linked to Sudan since June 2005, 14 of them this year.

GM may have only weeks to divest itself of Saab, whereas Ford is a slightly less desperate seller.

Therefore, in recent years had to divest non-strategic assets to increase cash flow.

But having to divest Highbridge, a big hedge-fund firm, would be "horrible" , says a JPMorgan insider.

'To withdraw and divest would have tarnished our brand and reputation. '

Divest you of your prejudice.

And others notified Bank of America of their plans to divest this week.

BoA will become free to divest about a third of its 16. 7 per cent stake today after a lock-in period expires.

That's true transumerism: You divest yourself of costly material goods and put your money where your life is.

Mathews Phosa, the ANC's treasurer, says Chancellor House will divest from the consortium soon.

The HA approved a plan to divest its retail and car-parking facilities.

Since that deal, Rio Tinto has been under pressure to divest assets and raise money.

Edward Breen, who became the new CEO in 2002, has pushed Tyco to divest assets and rid itself of debt.

The most highprofile area of the SRI world is the campaign to divest from Sudan.

You will need to divest yourself of all stocks that might suggest any conflict of interest.

A good investor also knows when to divest, and we'll talk about how to read the warning signs.

Buy from companies tackling climate change. Divest from companies ignoring it. We can do this.

Benmosche had clashed with Wilson over how to divest the unit.

He can not divest himself of the suspicion that his wife is unfaithful.

divest : ~ sb of sth take away (sb's power, rights, responsibility, etc)

divest the baby of his clothes

He simply cannot divest himself of the idea