Vallares, the company he founded with Rothschild, 40, is a so-called blank-check company: It had no assets when it went public.
Aug. 29 Bloomberg -- It's easy to see why corporate bosses who get squeezed out of power are tempted to set up so- called blank-check companies as part of a comeback strategy. ❋ Unknown (2011)
After eight years of blank-check spending under Bush, the Rethuglicans are now worried about the deficit. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was literally a $787 billion no-questions-asked blank-check written in support of the most extreme elements of the progressive movement since the Great Depression. ❋ Chriss Street (2011)
The open-ended, blank-check nature of the Medicare subsidy threatens the solvency of this critical program and creates inexcusable levels of waste. ❋ Paul D. Ryan (2011)
Chesapeake, another blank-check REIT formed in January 2010, has contracted to purchase seven hotels for $530 million. ❋ Kris Hudson (2011)
Dealogic's data exclude real-estate investment trusts and offerings without an operating business, such as blank-check companies and special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs. ❋ Lynn Cowan (2011)
This is expected behavior from the spoiled brat sore losers, but where were these ‘little-noticed rules’ during Congressional authorization of blank-check war, anti-constitutional retro-active immunity, and freedom restrictive Patriot Act? ❋ Unknown (2010)
A blank-check REIT goes public without assets and raises money to purchase properties. ❋ Kris Hudson (2011)
(It would be important for Israel to note that every overture in politics falls into that category, including the Arab Peace Initiative and US blank-check support.) ❋ Unknown (2010)
It would be important for Israel to note that every overture in politics falls into that category, including the Arab Peace Initiative and US blank-check support. ❋ Amjad Atallah (2010)
Yet this is the same Tim Geithner who allowed Lehman Brothers to fail while chairing the New York Fed, helped push a no-strings-attached $17.5 trillion in bailout and guarantees to save Wall Street, and, of course, proposed last week that new blank-check program to salvage "too big to fail" institutions after they start to implode. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I think that I have unfortunately been vindicated by almost every single action that the Democratic Party has taken since 2006 when impeachment was taken “off the table,” but “blank-check” war funding was served up to the Military Industrial Complex on a bloody platter dripping with the flesh and blood of real human beings. ❋ Unknown (2009)
• John McCain said the White House should veto a two-month Iraq funding bill — joining the White House's already-stated position that funding should only be in the form of long-running clean/blank-check bills. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Did these concerned "patriot families" even realize Bush and Cheney had no plan to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and allowed indefinite, blank-check war appropriations multiplying the federal debt? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Great, so the side-track UC agreements will be meaningless and Bush gets his blank-check in the Defense bill. ❋ Unknown (2009)
However, our mainstream Jewish leaders have for too long given Israel a blank-check in its policies. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But we who have spent decades in Alzheimer's disease research recognize that such a blank-check justification is an ethical bait-and-switch since this neural pathway is not even involved in Alzheimer's disease and these experiments have never been referenced in real Alzheimer's disease research. ❋ Unknown (2009)
[George W. Bush] thinks that he has [a blank] check to do what he pleases, which is why our nation is [falling apart]. ❋ Jesster79 (2005)
We asked the teacher if we could use [mathematical] tools, she said you have a "[blank check]".
Dad said that I would have a "blank check" on his car once I [graduate]. ❋ Tahahaha7 (2019)
Dont [go in] there, I just wrote [a blank] [check that] is rank. ❋ Superintendent (2008)
You see that girl over there with the [fat ass] she can get some [blank check dick] [on God] ❋ Blackguyinsweats (2019)
