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...With so much at stake, China will likely do whatever it takes to overcome concerns. After all, the ARJ21 represents only the beginning of the country's aerospace ambitions. At the Paris Air Show in June, Bombardier announced it plans to invest $100 million with ACAC in designing additional versions of the ARJ21. Ultimately, China intends to go toe-to-toe with the biggest in the business. In March, Chinese leaders pledged to invest at least $6 billion to produce a 150-seat jetliner that by 2020 could be competing with the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320. "The ARJ21...
...where the majority of cubers competed for status among the little-known speedcubing subcultures of their home countries, for others fame and fortune, relatively speaking, was at stake...
Harvard’s endowment is invested in Chevron as well. The University held 172,246 shares of the firm on June 30, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That stake would be worth $15.8 million today...
...Economy Minister for the last conservative government. Breton is described in the AMF finding as having received a memo from an unidentified source in December 2005, warning EADS would be entering "a zone of turbulence." The memo to Breton also purportedly urged the French government to lower its 15% stake in the group before flying got rough for EADS, which would allow the state to "profit from the current value of shares, which incorporates only the good news of the last financial year." Breton responded to the Le Figaro report stressing the state's "conduct was irreproachable" at the time...
Historically, Harvard has been reluctant to let human rights considerations affect its investment decisions. But on rare occasions, the University has dropped its holdings in firms that have close ties to particularly reprehensible regimes. In response to the Darfur genocide, Harvard sold its stake in the oil company PetroChina in 2005. The Harvard Corporation, the school’s seven-member senior governing body, cited a “unique pattern of circumstances relating PetroChina to the crisis in Sudan”: oil revenues from a PetroChina-backed project have funded Sudanese weapons purchases, enabling the regime to slaughter innocent...