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The stakes have never been higher, both for Netanyahu, and for the state that, at the moment, he continues to lead.
The stakes are high and the threat is real.
The stakes are high, and failure would be costly to Americans, Israelis, and Palestinians.
He is a gambler, but not for the highest stakes.
But the vast majority of “crown jewels” remained partly in the hands of governments, with a strategic private partner or private investors acquiring stakes through capital markets.
Even if many emerging-market sovereign funds would prefer to remain quiet, non-voting investors with passive stakes in foreign companies, the tech-sector acquisition spree that is currently underway demands that they gain a better understanding of their rights as shareholders.
MOSCOW – The decision by BP and the Russian shareholders of TNK-BP to sell their stakes to Russia’s state owned Rosneft crowns a very successful year for the company – and for Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin.
Given the stakes, failure to prepare for the worst is not an option.
But every so often, a “post-normal” scientific puzzle emerges, something philosophers Silvio Funtowicz and Jerome Ravetz first defined in 1993 as a problem “where facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high, and decisions urgent.”
For foreign investors, the policy will be to expand greatly the range of opportunities while curtailing foreign control; foreign companies, for example, may hold minority stakes in the telecoms sector, while dominant foreign companies like Monsanto will face constraints.
Such a move would also contribute to banking integration if the equity stakes were eventually sold in an open EU-wide auction.
So the stakes in Burma are high for China, as are Chinese fears of about how any future “national reconciliation” government might react to China’s record of complicity with the corrupt military rulers.
But, with the stakes so high, there is no room for complacency.
The stakes are simply too high not to deliver on this promise.
The Oslo summit will, one expects, provide motivation for political leaders to rise to the challenge they face, as it highlights the high stakes of investment in education.
Because many of them held stakes in state-owned enterprises before becoming financial investors, their holdings tend to be diverse, and often include those same SOEs, as well as real estate and equity stakes in listed and unlisted companies.
At such a modest cost, and with the stakes so high, it is hard to imagine the world failing to act decisively.
In world championship matches, which typically take place only once every two or three years, the stakes are higher – and the precautions even greater.
In industrial affairs, Russia has grabbed stakes in Kazakhstani and Azerbaijani oil developments.
Its investment plans are overextended outside of Russia – part of the imperial policy – while domestic exploration for new sources is declining, as foreign companies have been forced to surrender stakes in projects such as the huge gas development on Sakhalin Island.
For Europe and its troops, the stakes in Lebanon are very high.
As the once-imminent promise of identifying “biomarkers” for depression recedes into the distant future, the APA is raising the stakes – and increasing pressure on the already vulnerable – by implying that, after two weeks, a person’s grief is no longer just grief.
The authors present a broad, detailed, and fair assessment of private equity – the business of investing in established companies through debt-financed purchases of controlling stakes.
China could create a system in which broad equity stakes – held by pension, social security, or sovereign wealth funds – are professionally managed, thereby guaranteeing not only that the long-term risk-adjusted ROE is higher than the real (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth rate and the nominal interest rate, but also that the gains are shared widely among the population.
If you play Russian roulette with one or two bullets in the barrel, you are more likely to survive than not, but the stakes would need to be astonishingly high – or the value you place on your life inordinately low – for this to seem a wise gamble.
It is in East Asia – where the strategic interests of China, the United States, and their respective partners intersect – that the geopolitical stakes, diplomatic tensions, and potential for a global explosion are highest.
Whatever action Trump decides to take, he must recognize that the stakes – not just for the Korean Peninsula, but also for America’s relationship with China – could not be higher.
Further raising the stakes for European integration is the rise of China and India, which highlights the twenty-first-century reality that population matters as much as productivity in determining economic might.
The stakes for Lebanon are high.
By encouraging its companies to tap Himalayan glaciers for premium drinking water that can satisfy a public skeptical about the safety of tap water, China is raising the environmental stakes throughout Asia.
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