The company's financial advisors conducted a comprehensive solicitation of potential bidders and provided the board with a thorough evaluation of those expressions of interest received from interested bidders.

The Sturm Group, ... also provided documented ability to fund the purchase price and ongoing operations, as well as clear evidence of the ability to meet the financial and operating requirements of the City and County of Denver and the ownership standards of the NBA and NHL.

In some ways this could be good thing because we can do a thorough back-to-back evaluation at Sandown under race conditions.

After careful consideration in conjunction with our financial and legal advisors and an independent committee of Maytag's board consisting of all non-management directors, we re-evaluated the transaction with Triton and concluded that the Whirlpool agreement is superior and is in the best interest of our shareholders.

The construction project Bill did at Kansas State is unsurpassed in my memory in terms of developing a program.

The blue-chippers wouldn't even talk to Kansas State,