The French government has indicated it might hang on to its shares, but accept being diluted to 9%.
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Over the years employee ownership has been diluted to 6% of the company.
The manufacturer then dilutes it to 200C, which in homeopath-speak means that 1 gram of extract is diluted to one part in 10400.
And the majority of the episodes were variably uneven, hardly devoid of brilliance and the sort of hilarity that most currently running shows can't even approach, but usually diluted to an infuriating degree by the structure and lack of structure of the endeavor.
That means persuading the government, which does not want its 59% stake diluted, to stump up: not an easy task.
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It set the example by buying 6m doses (enough, when diluted, to vaccinate 24m Germans), with enough for 11m more people arriving in 2003.
For instance, some women who have teamed up with angel investors or venture capitalists are likely to have diluted their ownership stake in their businesses to raise financing that will eventually result in their owning a more valuable piece of a much bigger company.
The left certainly approves of his civil libertarianism and his (now diluted) policy to abolish university-tuition fees.
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Zuk significantly diluted his equity to 5% so early hires could have a healthy stake in the company.
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They did rise, but in between that period the Brazilian government, which owns 51% of Petrobras, diluted the shares to raise capital.
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But nobody knows for sure how the currency markets would react were the pact to be diluted or even scrapped.
Like a cynical quack, Mr Sarkozy prescribes homeopathic cures in which policies like protectionism are so much diluted that they cease to function.
In October 1989 the group's stake in Maison Bouygues was diluted from 48% to 34% when it did not subscribe for a capital increase.
The thin moonlight diluted her coffee skin to a milky pallor.
If there is any oil suspended underwater, such high waves would bring it to the surface - but it is likely then to be diluted, she says.
On Capitol Hill, Democrats are already using the momentum of the court's decisions to push for mandatory limits on carbon emissions, but anything they come up with in this Congress is likely to be diluted.
It is basically a way (or excuse) to drink straight bourbon that tastes diluted, a much easier (and faster) to consume mixed drink, but is in fact near full strength.
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He became an activist on the issue a dozen years ago when state officials discussed an effort to combat the frogs on the Big Island by bombing them with a diluted caffeine spray in an effort to give them heart attacks.
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The level of dilution tested by the scientists corresponded only to the more "concentrated" solutions used by homeopaths, perhaps diluted only six-fold rather than to "infinity", as in some preparations.
In the event, pensions reform, albeit of a diluted kind, looks likely to get final approval next month.
But these days, a competitive, wildly diluted hospitality landscape requires hoteliers to come up with more unique ways to engage travelers.
The stock gained solid ground during the rebound of 2009 but due to funding constraints diluted the shares thus capping the rapid rise of the stock.
An electron microscope would be unreliable, particularly for someone infected a long time, because the number of cells harboring virus genes would be diluted over time and difficult to detect, said McGowan, the New York and New Jersey chairman of the American Academy of HIV Medicine.
As The Economist went to press, it looked likely that a diluted version of the Volcker rule would pass, allowing banks to keep running hedge-fund and private-equity units for clients who want to invest in them, and perhaps to keep putting a small share of their own capital in them as well.
In 2003 the Ourairat family, founders of the Phyathai Group, sued Wichai, claiming the debt restructuring he engineered with the banks diluted their stake in Prasit Patana to just 3%.
Seagate expects these transactions and agreements to be meaningfully accretive to non-GAAP diluted earnings per share and cash flow within the first full year following the closing, and Seagate does not expect any material restructuring costs in connection with them.
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While these large social networking companies are still figuring out their business models and the way they will monetize their massive reach, it behooves the industry (and investors) to consider that sharing diluted by the size of a social network may, in the end, be less valuable than information that is shared by close knit groups.
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Earlier reports had suggested the directive was being diluted, before a decision was made to postpone it.
Most small and a goodly number of midsize states wouldn't want to see their relative power diluted, so such an amendment would have little chance of ratification.
He did a stock offering that diluted Canopy's share in the company to 8% from 18%.
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