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Power said the U.S. government does not take action unless its vital interests are at stake, using as an example the decision not to intervene in the Rwandan genocide...
...Hawks battled viciously to pull off a tie, but, with so much at stake in the game, Harvard played just as physically as Hartford. The officials called 28 fouls in the game...
...wait long before pushing the stodgy company to break out of the cow pastures that envelop its local borough of Gutersloh (population 78,414). In 1995, shortly after he was named head of corporate strategy, Middelhoff persuaded the tightfisted Bertelsmann board to gamble $50 million on a 5% stake in a nascent Internet company called America Online. It was a masterstroke. The $50 million AOL investment turned into $1.8 billion and propelled him into the president's suite...
...megamergers left little room for the big deal that might seal a No. 1 content position for Bertelsmann. The private Bertelsmann's board has a deep-rooted aversion to debt. So Middelhoff redoubled his efforts to reorganize the company around digital content and in one stroke sold off its stake in a string of companies before the dotcom meltdown. That netted an estimated $15 billion in cash ($8 billion from AOL Europe alone) to shop with...
There's more than one presidency at stake here...