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...brewing trade war, POSCO's exports to the U.S. could shrivel. Yet in the twisted calculus of steel politics, the company lobbying hardest for tariffs, USX-U.S. Steel, also has a stake in cheap POSCO imports. USS-POSCO, a California-based joint venture between the firms, buys most of the Korean steelmaker's hot-rolled coil imports, which the venture uses to make other products sold in the U.S. A spokesman for U.S. Steel wouldn't comment on the joint venture's viability should tariffs be imposed. But, says POSCO's Lee Chun Hwan, "[The venture] might...
...Jiang has more at stake in the succession than ensuring his chosen mandarins get the plum posts. He also needs to protect his allies, including family members, from charges of corruption. Revealing the dirt on a leader's underlings is a time-honored means of attack in China. Jiang himself signaled his independence from patriarch Deng Xiaoping in 1995 by ousting Beijing party head Chen Xitong, whom Deng had installed, on corruption charges. Then, two years ago, Jiang quelled a corruption investigation when it threatened to implicate his own Beijing party chief. Neither Jiang nor his family members have been...
...There's more than revenue growth at stake. There's national pride. Japan's prolonged recession threatens to relegate the country to second-class status among industrialized nations. By selling its i-mode and 3G know-how overseas, DoCoMo hopes to spread the mobile Internet?seeding the market for homegrown Japanese technology and boosting the country's status as an info-age innovator. "With DoCoMo and i-mode, you've got a global brand recognition and excitement over a new product that you haven't seen since the Sony Walkman," says Kirk Boodry, telecom analyst for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein...
With so much at stake, the trial will receive the highest level of international scrutiny, and it may determine whether or not cases against world leaders are brought before international courts in the future...
...coverage of the controversial gold medal awards in the pairs figure skating competition for the same reasons most fans were: the beauty of the sport, the excitement of high level athletic achievement and, of course, crazy French judges. But Butler also had a bit more at stake in the success of the Russian skaters Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharvlidze because he handpicked their gold medal soundtrack. The pair glided to an Olympic gold medal on Feb. 11 after completing their long program, which was set to “Meditations from Thais” by the French composer Jules Massenet...