Their hopes rested on selling a substantial stake in Porsche to a Qatari sovereign-wealth fund and then negotiating with VW from a position of greater strength.

他们的希望依赖于将保时捷的大量股份出售给一个卡塔尔主权财富基金，然后以更强势的姿态和大众谈判。

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What seems to have happened is that Mr. Obama's caution, his reluctance to stake out a clearly partisan position, led him to propose a relatively weak, incomplete health care plan.

看起来发生的事情是奥巴马的谨慎，他不愿意正面支持，让他在健康关爱计划里不完整，站不住脚。

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And perhaps a better solution is for Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz to simply buy a minority stake and help reorganize the company from that position (as suggested by Henry Blodget).

对银湖和Andreessen Horowitz公司来说，收购雅虎少数股权并推动重组该公司(如分析师亨利·布罗·吉特的建议)可能是一个更好的选择。

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He was hemmed in among the other colts, unable to stake a position on the outside as he had in rallying to victory at Churchill Downs on May 4.

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With a 17% stake, a position on ImClone's nine-member board and a partnership to market the company's blockbuster cancer drug Erbitux, Bristol-Myers isn't just any shareholder.

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In policy making, lots of ideas are thrown out in order to set the good apart from the bad, and in order to stake out a position for compromise.

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