1.   Deutsche Telekom has been actively soliciting bids to sell its cable unit in an effort to placate European Union regulators.

2.   Executives must placate regulators and wring savings out of the combined companies to meet the demands of Wall Street.

3.   If Vodafone succeeds in acquiring Mannesmann, it will have to shed Orange to placate regulators, a point Esser does not want investors to forget.

4.   It also called on United to divest gates and slots at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., in order to placate federal regulators.

5.   The Sunday Telegraph reported that the talks broke down because both banks would have had to divest too many assets to placate regulators.

6.   Vodafone would almost certainly be forced to sell Orange to placate regulators because it would have a stranglehold on the British mobile phone market.

7.   Whether GM is serious about the electric car or just trying to placate regulators, Rettie of J.D. Power says it stands to reap considerable benefits from its efforts.

8.   It is widely believed that, in order to placate regulators, the two airlines may be required to divest significant additional critical routes and assets.