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With the stakes so high, many media owners have chosen to leave the game entirely, selling their outlets to pro-Kremlin oligarchs, many of whom were, fittingly, previously asked by Putin to buy soccer clubs.
CAMBRIDGE – When the stakes are high, it is no surprise that battling political opponents use whatever support they can garner from economists and other researchers.
Encouraging the private sector to take stakes in SOEs in strategic areas like energy, power, and finance is supposed to increase competition, boost efficiency, and reduce pressure on the government to invest.
Rather than second-guessing the negotiators – or the very possibility of successful negotiations – we all need to understand the stakes a little better.
Obama’s achievement raises the stakes for his first term in office.
Despite the Chinese government’s recent clampdown on outbound capital flows, Chinese companies are still adding to their major stakes in Hollywood properties.
With these financial stakes, the Chinese government has leverage that goes beyond old-fashioned censorship.
The United States has always been the model of a mobile society, where people are willing to pull up stakes and go someplace new – if not to a new territory out west, then at least to a distant suburb, a long drive away from their old home.
The crisis in Ukraine and the tensions with Russia underscore just how high the stakes are for Canada and Europe alike.
The stakes for Hamas could not be higher.
Now, with the use of chemical weapons, probably by the Syrian government (and possibly by both sides), the US has again ratcheted up the stakes.
More recently, we acquired the messaging app Viber and bought minority stakes in the American ride-hailing app Lyft and online scrapbooking site Pinterest.
In this crisis, the stakes are high, which is why Germany, the UK, and France began negotiations with Iran two years ago with the goal of persuading Iran to abandon its efforts to close the nuclear fuel cycle.
Brutal dictators go unpunished because their interests are protected by large powers with stakes in their natural resources.
In Li’s case, the stakes are particularly high.
Even if owning oil assets is a useful hedge (as in a small, oil-consuming country), it is not clear that buying stakes in opaque companies in foreign countries is the best strategy.
In the race toward globalization, the stakes are high for both Russia and Europe.
European multinationals also have large stakes in the Chinese economy, and EU manufacturing exports to China and other emerging markets are now almost double those of the US.
This clearly raises the stakes.
He raised the stakes last September, when he wrote a letter to Jonathan accusing the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of failing to remit $49.8 billion to government coffers – a scheme in which several senior government officials were complicit.
But the stakes are so high, and the potential so great, that the least one must do is hope.
It was not weakness or helplessness that induced Obama to play for high stakes.
Of course, the stakes are too high for Canada, Denmark, and Russia to allow the region’s remoteness and its hostile environment to influence how resolutely they press their claims.
At the likely meeting between Tsipras and Merkel this week in Brussels, the stakes could not be higher.
With the stakes so high, the Russian-US initiative to organize a peace conference has not only been welcomed, but is seen as an indispensable initiative that must be planned with excruciating care.
At the start of the process, China will have small and indirect ownership stakes in a great many US enterprises, and the odds are that the usual objections will be absent.
The stakes at the conference are thus exceptionally high, both for Syria and for its neighbors, which are straining against severe destabilization.
It is possible that OFs will displace rather than develop low-income areas, and that the lion’s share of the benefits will accrue to investors and developers who already have stakes in locations that qualify for OZ designation.
Democracy is shakier, and the stakes for the West higher, in Russia and Ukraine than in Central Europe.
The stakes of failure to meet the jobs challenge are high, not least because it would mean continued increase in urban poverty.
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