Several have given up control entirely, others maintain it through the achievement of meaningful milestones.
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Although unlikely to give up control of Sovereign, Santander could seek to combine it with another institution.
Among the incumbent utilities unwilling to give up control of its wires is Atlanta-based Southern Company.
Members were reluctant to give up control but were tempted by the 18, 000 shares for each seat.
Although minority stakes have been sold in state-run firms, the government is loth to give up control.
As a trade-off, "I'm giving up control of my school by being part of this, " he said.
While those in charge don't necessarily have to give up control, they may need to make some momentous decisions.
You give up control but you also get access to an incredible network of people and an incredible ecosystem.
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In some countries giving up control over tax and spending will lead to demands that voters should have their say.
The concern stems from giving up control of key assets and data without effectively managing the risk of doing so.
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Once they get started, they hate giving up control of their companies, even if they are no good at management.
As Merloni grows, they claim to accept that they may have to give up control and become mere passive investors.
Royal Bank of Scotland is to give up control of Direct Line after selling part of its stake in the insurer.
It commemorates the day in 1919 when the UK gave up control of Afghanistan's foreign relations following a short border war.
In switching their emphasis to Facebook, marketers give up control over much of the valuable data that their users leave behind.
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Nor can they have their whole cake and eat it too: If you trade equity for cash, you will give up control.
But the one thing managers don't like doing is giving up control.
Alternatively, for those who are willing to give up control now, there may be other ways of providing security for the older generation.
But those inefficiencies are working for some companies, and those companies have little need to offer up control of their product to Apple.
Rather, privatisation became little more than a convenient mechanism for raising large sums of cash without giving up control of the companies concerned.
Most of the time, managers' reluctance to spin off promising but unrelated subsidiaries is simply explained: they are loth to give up control.
Will the market recover sufficiently in the next six months so that companies can refinance this debt without having to give up control?
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The most notable candidate to snap up control of the Rams is Dave Checketts, a longtime sports executive who has controlled the NHL's St.
The European Union aim is to get an agreement that Gazprom will give up control of its pipelines and let other companies share the routes.
Margaret Beckett, president of the Board of Trade, refused to give up control of the industrial aid and business support services run by her ministry.
At 64, Palumbo isn't ready to give up control of his houses yet, but he says he hasn't ruled out turning them into nonprofit museums someday.
Big companies and old industries are notoriously bad at changing their ways and giving up control, even when obvious opportunities argue for embracing openness and change.
If Falcone loses his SEC case, he could be forced to give up control of Harbinger and it is unlikely anyone else would want to buy it.
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"There is a certain sort of sad inevitability to this moment, " the Times' Nocera told CNN, adding that Jobs wouldn't give up control of his company easily.
Unlike Colombia, Panama is reluctant, at least in public, to seek help from the United States, which gave up control of the Panama canal only last December.
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