AGF's shareholders a choice between FFr320 in cash for each share now, or a guaranteed price of FFr360 on shares held until 2000.

ECONOMIST: Insurance

Ever since the 1960s, Fapesp has been guaranteed, by law, a fixed share of all the tax collected in Sao Paulo (first 0.5%, later 1%) and independence from the political meddling that is endemic in Brazilian public institutions.

ECONOMIST: Brazilian science

Now that the market is comfortable with Android, the commodity strategy is almost guaranteed to earn a huge slice of market share.

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