Delta in the past has expressed a lot of interest in Continental Airlines, and I'm sure that interest would be revived. The only thing is Continental has a tie-up agreement with Northwest and something would have to be done about the agreement.
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We've got to do a better job of tactics and technique. Our problem is controlling the tie-up, and we're getting better at it. The only way you get better at it is to work at it and get good competition.
I guess he knew how I wrestle or something, because he just took me out of the way I wrestle. Every time I tried to set something up, he went for a collar tie-up, and he was just so strong.
There should not be anything covert in case of an electoral alliance with Congress. We are for a formal tie-up.
Looking at the situation of Japanese mobile phone handset makers, we thought that it was inevitable to tie-up with a major player in the world which produces some 50 million to 60 million handsets a year.
Unless some sort of financial support, capital injection or business tie-up materializes, we expect Sanyo's spread in the cash bond and protection premium in the CDS markets to stay wide.
A possible tie-up between EADS and Thales...would be a decision for the management of the respective companies, not one which would be steered by politicians.