If there are large dollars at stake, the incentives to opt-out are higher.
Twenty-five Ghanaian soldiers stake out a patch of soil belonging to Lebanon, but repeatedly encroached upon by the Israeli army.
Some urged that new privacy laws be enacted to curb the paparazzi, or free-lance photographers who stake out celebrities and whose photos command fat royalties.
Pfizer recently bought out the Exubera stake of co-developer Sanofi-Aventis, creating a higher-margin opportunity.
The chief programme at stake is a three-year development plan worked out by the government and the World Bank.
Pfizer recently bought out the Exubera stake of co-developer Sanofi-Aventis (nyse: SNY - news - people ), creating a higher-margin opportunity.
The latest bail-out will give the government a stake of over seven times the holding of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the most influential existing shareholder and voting power to match.
Twenty years from today, we could live in an age defined by ever-more-violent storms and watch as other nations stake out a crucial advantage in clean energy technology.
Thus was Royal Dutch Shell (nyse: RDSA - news - people ) squeezed out of its majority stake in the Sakhalin oil bonanza for pennies on the dollar.
The biggest percentage gainer is motorcycle king Brijmohan Lall Munjal, who broke off a 26-year pairing with Honda Motors, buying out its stake at nearly half the market price.
Pennsylvania-based Vanguard Health Care Fund has reduced its stake of five companies out of the seven total transactions it reported recently for its third quarter portfolio update.
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Ms. Cabot, who launched Dansko in 1990 by selling shoes from the back of a Volvo station wagon, says the tax benefits associated with employee stock ownership enabled the S corporation to manage the long-term debt of buying out the couple's ownership stake.
With visibility on two uncertain elements, and with the opportunity to exit its equity stake before year-end, the time is right for the Treasury to close out its AIG position in the offering to be conducted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan Chase.
Haight picked out replacement property, a 15% stake in a 113, 000-square-foot shopping center in Chicago.
"I plan to sit out Test and one-day matches where nothing much is at stake, " said Inzamam.
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After dark has its attractions as well: buskers stake out small spots of the pedestrian path to serenade the crowd with old-fashioned favourites and new-fangled hits.
At stake is the market for the so-called x86 processors that both Intel and AMD stamp out.
At present, Sprint is seeking to buy out the remaining stake in Clearwire, bringing that company and its valuable spectrum -- formerly used for WiMAX -- completely in-house.
If he is rejected, the message to future public servants will be clear -- never rock the boat, always go along with the majority, never stake out an independent position, never take a principled stand and above all, never annoy a powerful enemy.
Once Apple set their stake in the ground for a product announcement, one-by-one, the competition came out to beat Apple to the punch.
Appel took the painful decision of pulling out and, in a well-timed deal, sold DHL's stake in DeutschePostbank to Deustche Bank in September 2008.
Political divisions have rarely been uglier and what better more sacred ground to stake out than claiming to awaken the public to their fulfillment of the American dream, home-ownership.
The Wolseley has a similar crowd, menu and surroundings stake out a table on an upper level for great people watching, especially during its popular power-breakfast hours.
This is what tantalizes Laybourne: If she can carve out even a tiny slice of the huge sums at stake, she might build a billion-dollar business in little time.
Boldly moving out of its comfort zone, the 327-year-old exchange bought a controlling stake in the London-based Equiduct trading platform and entered a strategic relationship with the investment banks Citadel Securities and Knight Capital Group, to become a market to be reckoned with.
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With back-rowers Corry and Dallaglio now out of the picture, Croft and Wasps flanker James Haskell get their chance to stake a first-team spot.
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