granting

There is a huge difference between granting Greece debt relief, and granting Greece more debt.

However, that's totally different than granting similar rights and subsidies to acres of cash-crops and chemical-refineries!

The point is that they're granting themselves the permission to do so if anyone ever deemed it necessary and that the user has to agree to their terms to use windows.

There's no law that stops Canonical from granting a trademark license to anyone who uses or depends on unmodified Ubuntu binaries.

She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).

Here in Switzerland companies stopped granting guest access over the last few years.

AAL needed money at the time they were granting the tickets to investors.

Frequently granting them anonymity when their position neither deserves nor requires it?

The shopkeeper makes the premises open to the public, but the scope of that access is limited by the shopkeeper's purpose in granting that access.

So unless i'm missing something they're granting themselves the right to disclose your harddrive to government agencies or their own legal department on a good-faith basis.

I don't think anyone wants a situation where granting any individual a raise means that everyone with similar responsibilities (no two people 'do the same job') gets the same raise.

If they don't like the price - recursively granting others the same freedom - then they are free to choose another vendor (or write their own version).

The company appears to be granting itself the right to share your data either with your consent “or as necessary”.

Especially two concepts it discussed: 1) The possibility of structuring CEO compensation to be aligned with debt-to-equity ratio instead of stock option grants, and 2) "proxy access" - granting longer-term shareholders more governance rights.

Granting them victim status because they just couldn't resist those submarines and tanks despite not being able to pay...