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...Democrats. But that may become an uphill battle: The numbers in the 2002 election seem to favor the Democrats putting some padding on their one-vote lead in the Senate. Twenty seats now held by Republicans are up for grabs, while the Democrats have only 14 seats at stake...
...Then Corti moved on to Belgium, where he scored his biggest victory in last month's agreement with the Belgian government on funding for Sabena, the national airline that has had only one profitable year in its 40-year history. As with the French holdings, Swissair took a minority stake, 49.5%, in Sabena because as a non-E.U. company it was initially barred from having majority control. But it had agreed in January to raise its stake to 85% of Sabena, which posted losses last year of $307 million. Now Swissair is freed from that obligation, though it will...
...Along with bailing out of airline partnerships, Swissair has been selling non-core assets in hopes of lightening its debt load. Swissair ended its 10% stake in Austrian Airlines and sold its hotel division Swiss?tel to the Raffles group for $247 million. Corti said he expects to raise a further $1 billion by selling aircraft and leasing them back. But he also noted that the debt had fallen just slightly, so it was still around $4.4 billion at the end of June (its equity in December was only about $720 million...
...Harvard has a great stake in its teaching hospitals,” University President Lawrence H. Summers said in an interview last week...
...stake is more than just a congressional seat—but the identity of one of Boston’s most storied neighborhoods. Only one candidate, State Sen. Stephen F. Lynch (D), lives in Southie. All the rest of the candidates live in the district’s suburbs outside Boston...