Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that the fact that the ballot questions were not written on the ballots was a very disconcerting issue to me," Myers said. "In very close elections on very complicated issues, substantial questions are at stake...
...Also at stake in this process is the home rule petition passed two weeks ago by the Cambridge City Council seeking to retain some form of rent control, despite the passage of Question...
...while Sony's disaster drew the harshest verdicts, other Japanese giants have been proving recently that their American investments have suffered from bad oversight, bad calls and bad timing. Last week Mitsubishi, which has an 80% stake in the Rockefeller Group, owner of New York's Rockefeller Center, threatened to default on its $1.3 billion mortgage, taken out five years ago when borrowing was easy. Matsushita, meanwhile, is locked in a struggle with the American executives who run MCA -- the film studio it bought for $6.1 billion in 1990 -- over the Americans' demand for more authority and investment capital. Last...
...labels. But for Americans, there is also a cautionary tale in drawing pompous conclusions about the nation's economic security when a few Japanese companies invest in premier American properties. When the Japanese did just that in the late 1980s, investment banker Felix Rohatyn wrote, "What is at stake is not only the loss of our position as the leader of the Western democracies, but the loss of our independence of action both in economic and in foreign policy." Turns out it was just about making deals -- and perhaps not very good ones...
Returning to its retailing roots, Sears, Roebuck announced it would spin off its $9 billion stake in Allstate, the nation's second largest insurer of homes and autos...