Interestingly, in the final years of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev launched a charm offensive aimed at Western investors in the hope of keeping a failing communist system on Western life-support until the Kremlin could construct a more viable economic system (one such gambit was the oxymoronic "command market" economy).
Doing so would permit Hanoi to borrow hundreds of millions from the newly established IMF funding facility available to countries ostensibly in transition from command to market economies.
Among them: a common desire to evolve from a command to a market economy, a mutual interest in containing Islam-fired nationalism in the new republics of Central Asia, and growing economic ties.
It was about political organisation dictatorship versus decentralisation or democracy as well as the choice between command economics and the market.
There's no telling what price the shares would command on the open market today, but this much is clear: Wall Street is cool to new issues these days.
Also, each company has a business segment that could be spun off because it has an operating margin superior to its parent and would also command an above-market enterprise multiple as a stand-alone business.
Mr. Heins said he expected the service fees to decline as the company works with carriers, who are eager to reduce those payments now that RIM's command of the smartphone market once a dominant one has crumbled.
As the number of educated Chileans rises, the premium they command in the labour market falls. (This is why income inequality in Chile has been falling a bit.) Employers give more weight to degrees from the top universities.
Deng says that the days of entrepreneurs being able to get into a market and command a leading position in the Mainland are over at least for Internet and mobile communications areas if not for some of the new booming areas such as cleantech and biotech.
Notably, the Soviet Union has severely undercut the chances for successful transitions from command economies to free market systems in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia by reducing earlier this year urgently-needed oil and gas supplies by as much as 20-30 percent -- notwithstanding Moscow's contractual obligations and in sharp contrast to Gorbachev's concern about "contract sanctity" in the case of his advisers in Iraq.
However, that would mean a return to ground zero for Samsung considering that Windows Phones currently command only about 3% market share.
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They much preferred a single-payer health system and with its attendant replacement of market forces with command and control directives issued from Washington, D.
Even the largest universities command a minuscule share of the market.
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In China the abstract notion of an external investor, or a market, does not command anywhere near the same respect as do the state and the demands of the managers within the company itself.
Jackson had room to create something different: popular-market wines good enough to command profit-heavy margins.
The Europeans collectively command nearly 40% of the global market, while the top four Japanese manufacturers control, among them, 15%.
Chowdhry believes Satyam will command a significant premium to its current discounted market value.
As the top baseball brand in such a large market, the Dodgers would likely command more than that, Lee Berke, a sports media consultant, said.
Anything above the mid-level is too high a price for Dalembert, but in this league and especially in this market, he is certain to command much more than that.
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Economic liberalization plans have inevitably run up against entrenched racial preferences, for instance in the property development market, where ethnic Malays still command discounts, and in higher education, which continues to operate on a quota system.
Maybe that's why Olhava expects Xbox to command more than a quarter of the game market by the end of next year and surpass the market share of Sony 's (nyse: SNE - news - people ) PlayStation 2 by the end of 2003.
So what I think is needed in the short term, very much so and almost desperately, is first the ability of the government and responsibility of the government to command and receive on a continuing basis significant market data about all sorts of products and services whether they are regulated or not.
The Padres control his rights through 2014, and he could command quite the haul if he hits the trade market.
China has adopted market economics while Cuba still has a command system with most of the economy under state control.
By comparison, Apple's iPad leads the tablet industry in market share, and its iPhones frequently command the biggest slice of quarterly smartphone shipments.
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The world's top five steelmakers still command only around one-fifth of the global market, whereas the three leading ore firms control 70% of supplies.
First, as the examples of China, Poland, Romania and others have demonstrated, greater integration into the global economy and large-scale infusions of Western capital, technology and investment into command economies do not automatically assure a transition into market-based reforms and necessary levels of political liberalization.
This cost will be more than offset by the lasting benefits in terms of a genuine reduction in the Soviet threat a real "peace dividend" that will only be achieved when the communist totalitarian political structure and its economic handmaiden, the centralized command system, are supplanted by true democratic and free market arrangements.
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