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Economics correspondent Suneel Ratan reports that there are also a few regulatory hurdles for Levin to surmount: "The deal will have to gain two sets of clearances -- and any problems encountered likely will be a consequence of the arrangement's giving Malone a significant minority interest in the merged entity. One is from antitrust regulators. The second is from the Federal Communications Commission, which would determine if the deal conforms to a maze of rules." Clearing the federal hurdles, Ratan says, could take up to a year...
...three games that Rutgers won, it opened up big leads that Harvard was unable to surmount. Similarly, in the two games the Crimson won, the Scarlet Knights made furious comeback attempts that were ultimately unfulfilled...
...everyone in the audience is not only familiar with the nuances of pre-electric lighting but feel that they have experienced it first hand. The movie grates constantly on the ear as well. Coughing, pickaxes, water pouring and children's sobbing provide a constant drone which all else must surmount to be heard...
...caveat. Despite its chewy theme, Brainfood is in many respects user- hostile. The author is director of research at the National Institute for Medical Research in Paris; his chapters on nutritional basics bristle with such forbidding terms as neuropeptides, mitochondria and oligodendrocyte. Nonetheless, those who can surmount this barbed-wire fence of technical jargon may find other parts of Bourre's book no less pleasing than -- to cite one of his own examples -- an omelet with freshly picked Bordeaux cepe mushrooms...
Even better than holding other candidates responsible, people who have ever harbored the thought of running for U.C. might surmount the courage to do so. As someone who has lost elections for council chair, vice-chair and treasurer, I have some authority to say that losing elections isn't as bad as it seems...