When a South Korean firm wanted to bidforaproject in the run-up to the APEC forum, an often-told story goes, it was asked to pay bribes double the amount that the firm calculated it would earn from the job.
Having failed in his bidfora massive development project around a new hockey arena, New York Islanders owner Charles Wang is throwing down the gauntlet to local taxpayers: you want the Islanders to say, float us the money.
In France, he explains, the country stopped all project finance in December, pending the unveiling of a revised policy for any project above 100 KW, which as he notes is not really very bid.