A lot of their deals are like that. The last thing they would have wanted was a bidding war over Russell.

Our job is ensure that those deals that injure consumers don't go through, ... On the other hand, we don't want to prevent 99 out of the 100 deals that are either neutral from a competitive point of view or actually pro consumer and pro efficiency.

Sometimes you have regimes that you have to cut deals with because priority one is the war on terror.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

I think the extent to which that happens depends on how much of the top management would be retained.

The best indicator of the future is what's been done in the past.