"We do not yet have the critical guarantees of governance and of development capacity the other two legs of counterinsurgency,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

The personal liability, perhaps the largest of its kind, stems from two guarantees Stern pledged as part of a 2007 shopping mall deal that went awry.

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Two-year guarantees for senior producers are back after falling out of vogue for two years.

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It sells with two-year guarantees, and offers much the biggest regional network of any Russian computer firm: 250 dealers across the country, full-service centres in 60 cities.

ECONOMIST: Russian computers