Helpfully, France Telecom stepped in to make clear its interest in buying Orange.
Incentives need to be in place that reflect the public interest and make it in pharma companies' interests to invest in the appropriate research and development, with smaller companies nurtured to create new opportunities.
Taken individually, none of these steps may seem to be an undue hardship, a sacrifice too great to make in the interest of securing an elusive peace.
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Another site, the non-profit Kiva.org, is also social in nature, but instead of donations to charities, it lets you make interest-free loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
It is in everyone's interest to make sure that developing countries, especially in Asia, are also well prepared.
But nor do they seem to have much interest in helping make it a success.
Russia has stated it may not be able to service interest payments in full but will try to make periodic interest payments.
If I were Google, instead of nagging or beating its partners into compliance, I would make it in their financial interest to update Android faster.
Farmers, vets and keepers of animals have always had to make hard decisions in the interest of the health and welfare of animal populations, both wild and domesticated.
But he did say that what's important for the American people and for the Senate to understand, that it is in America's interest to make sure that we defeat what he called the insurgents there in Iraq.
The recent strong pace of growth in America and the rise in its core inflation rate therefore make a strong case for a rise in interest rates now.
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And again, this is -- because of the respect that we have for the religious beliefs of Afghans and also because it is in our interest, it is in the interest of the security of our personnel, to make sure that that sensitivity exists and that it is widely shared.
If the housing market continues to boom, then locking currencies, say in 2004, would make matters worse, since interest rates could no longer be higher than in the euro area.
And nearly all analysts now expect the Bank of England to make further sharp cuts in UK interest rates in the new year.
Your credit score can make a big difference in your interest rate and lenders are a lot stricter than they used to be.
And Mr Higgs could usefully propose ways to make institutional shareholders take a closer interest in the firms they own, though he seems unlikely to do so.
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Cards are an obvious way into the market, and though lenders aren't going to make much in the way of late fees and interest charges (assuming rich people pay their bills on time and in full, which isn't always the case) they make up for it in the fees they charge to merchants to process transactions.
In fact, our budget would be in balance today were it not for the interest payments we have to make on the debt that accumulated in the 12 years before I took office.
The media choose which stories to make high profile, driven by public interest in those stories.
Should a senior tranche default, the insurer has the right to step in and make the missing interest payments to forestall a liquidation.
Toshiba has not indicated a great interest in the past to make 3.5-inch HDDs as it has focused on 2.5-inch and smaller HDDs.
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There is nothing like equity to assure that outside directors will take more than a passive interest in the decisions they make about a company's future.
It can be done entirely through a free market process where businesses and homeowners come to understand that it is in their interest to make these changes.
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But in the world patrolled by the food police, children would not be exposed to ads until they are 18, the age at which activists seem to think people magically become discriminating and able to make rational choices in their own best interest.
Although low interest rates make investment projects affordable now, rising government debt may lead to higher interest rates in the future.
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In the days of exorbitant interest rates and rampant budget deficits, they could make an easy buck by investing in government bonds.
The best part about money is that it can be used to make more money by investing it in an interest-bearing account.
Last month, the BoE joined forces with the U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank to make an emergency half-point cut in interest rates.
They can use dummy bids and offers to make it seem as if there is more interest in a contract than there truly is.
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