The credit crisis has shown that society has a stake in how well finance is run.
A third group of firms appears to be fully private, in that the government owns no direct stake in them.
I make this decision because I am convinced that our security is at stake in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Increasingly, financial firms have a stake in these markets too. Trading in agricultural futures, once a backwater, has boomed in recent years.
SIA already has a short-haul, full-service unit called SilkAir, which travels to tourist destinations in Asia and has a stake in Asian budget carrier Tiger Airways.
Also owns a 5% stake in Sanlam, a publicly listed financial services firm and Mamelodi sundowns, a South-African soccer team.
The government's investment in UBS will take the form of a bond that pays a hefty 12.5% coupon and is convertible into a roughly 9% nonvoting stake in the bank.
Mr Samuelsson was viewed as an able manager, though he had clashed in the past with Ferdinand piech, the chairman of both man and Volkswagen, which holds a 30% stake in man.
PCCW stock has fallen 9.9 per cent so far this year on fears that Britain's Cable &Wireless will offload half of its 15 per cent stake in PCCW after a lock-up period expired earlier this week.
Father drove the stake into the ground to build a fence.
Toyota owns a 16% stake in Fuji Heavy.
Shenzhen Huaqiang Infante Wuhu joy to hold 35 percent stake in the world.
If the assets are sold at a loss, the government could receive an added stake in the bank.
In Hungary, the Wanhua Industrial Group recently acquired a strategic stake in BorsodChem, a leading polyurethane producer in Central and Eastern Europe.
In September, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates announced the company had invested U.S.$72 million to buy an 18 percent stake in Lernhout & Hauspie Speech Products.
Fiat's 20% stake in Chrysler (which it received in exchange for management and technology) is due to rise to 35% in 2011 or 2012 on reaching some easily achievable milestones.
In deals where national security is a concern-say, if a sovereign fund attempted to take a big stake in a defence manufacturer-processes to block takeovers already exist.
The project is part of a joint venture by Shell and Cosan; with a capacity of more than 2 billion litres a year, it is the world's largest biofuel operation, and it owns a 16.4% stake in Codexis.
The West has a major stake in Kazakhstan.
In the end, Salat announced that he was ready to withdraw his small stake in Pratt from the company.
HSBC entered into exclusive talks to buy a controlling stake in Nedbank, South Africa’s fourthlargest bank by assets.
Nor is it to minimize what is at stake in the different approaches to international relations and national security that generally distinguish progressives and conservatives.
Shares in Best Buy are worth barely half what they were a year ago, and the firm has abruptly scaled back its international-expansion plans, offloading its stake in Carphone Warehouse in Britain.
A farmer who raised watermelons made up a sign and nailed it on a stake in his field, warning, "One of the watermelons in this field has been injected with a fatal acid."
Who has a stake in the neighborhood?
In the history of the Qing Dynasty, a march with a stake in destiny is about to begin.
Yum! Brands also bought a 2.6 percent stake in Little Sheep held by China-focused private equity fund Prax Capital, which jointly invested with 3i in 2006.
The government's plan to sell its 50-per-cent stake in Japan Tobacco (JT) was offset by the opposition party's support for Japan's tobacco farmers.
A draft law to reduce the state's stake in GDF from 80% to 34%, without which the merger cannot proceed, was recently approved by the lower house of parliament.
The Anglo-Swiss mining giant did, however, raise its stake in Lonmin to 25%.
In recent weeks there have been reports of venture capitalists bidding up valuations of hot start-ups in order to get a stake in them.
I didn't know whether it would work, but I had a lot of confidence in President Henrique Cardoso, and as Brazils major trading partner, the United States had a big stake in his success.
They planted a stake in the ground.
It has also taken a 20% stake in Ping An health, one of China's largest private health insurers.
He drove a stake into the ground.
We all have a stake in building peace and prosperity, disease and environmental destruction.
Warren Buffett, an American investor, offered a vote of confidence this week: the revered Sage of Omaha has lifted his stake in Tesco from 3.2% to 3.6%.
At stake in the conflicting claims: national pride and potentially lucrative natural gas drilling rights in waters around them.
After consecrating himself, he drove the stake into the ground just where he had knelt.
Although it is outside the euro, Britain has much at stake in the crisis: the solvency not just of its main trading partners, but also of its Banks, many of which are exposed to European debt.
The rest of the world has a stake in what happens in Europe, too.
The Owenses also denied that poachers were held under arrest or questioned at Marula-Puku, or that anyone was tied to a stake in the sun or beaten.
There is clearly a cadre of young people in Britain who feel they have little or no stake in the country’s future or their own.
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