Word: staking
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...Uzbekistan and Nigeria. The Suhartos also possess plenty of the trappings of wealth. In addition to a $4 million hunting ranch in New Zealand and a half share in a $4 million yacht moored in Australia, youngest son Hutomo Mandala Putra (nicknamed "Tommy") owns a 75% stake in an 18-hole golf course with 22 luxury apartments in England. Bambang Trihatmodjo, Suharto's second son, has an $8 million penthouse in Singapore and a $12 million mansion in an exclusive neighborhood of Los Angeles, just up the street from his brother Sigit Harjoyudanto's $9 million home. Eldest daughter Siti...
With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, agritech companies aren't eager to draw sweeping conclusions from the Cornell experiments. "Obviously the work is preliminary and inconclusive," says Monsanto spokesman Randy Krotz, minimizing the possibility that corn pollen could ever be blown far enough to affect monarch habitats. But it was just such a discovery--of pollen-dusted milkweed 200 ft. from the edge of cornfields--that prompted Losey's study in the first place. Says he: "We asked ourselves, 'What would happen if the milkweed would be dusted with Bt [corn pollen]?'" His experiments quickly gave an answer...
...skittish tacticians who fretted over the risks of invasion and the futility of trying to salvage a country that even in its better days was a social and environmental disaster. Citing the very real danger of waves of refugees hitting the Florida coast, Gore contended that "what was at stake was stopping the killing and the dying and the worst of the misery," recalls former Joint Chiefs Chairman John Shalikashvili. "He insisted we do our homework and figure out how that could be done, which in the end we did, and [we] carried...
...that still draws an angry reaction from Schrempp, DaimlerChrysler was refused admission to the Standard & Poor's 500 index--important because inclusion would make the company's stock a must-buy for many money managers. The majority of the company's shareholders are now in Europe, though the largest stake is controlled from Kuwait. Another concern is contract negotiations this summer with an increasingly feisty United Auto Workers union. In Europe the economy still trails Schrempp's ambitious expectations, and so do sales of the Smart, a clever but perhaps fatally flawed experiment in making a Mercedes for the masses...
...United States has a lot more at stake in Indonesia's election than simply a basket-case economy in need of rescue from decades of corruption. "Indonesia is the key U.S. geopolitical ally in the region," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "For more than 30 years it's mobilized the Pacific Rim countries to stand up to China's regional ambitions." The 17,000-island archipelago is the world's fourth most populous nation, and controls vital sea routes in the Pacific. And that's why the campaign for the June 7 poll, which began on Wednesday, is setting...