21.   Eaton said DaimlerChrysler planned to decide by the end of the year whether to take an equity stake in the Nissan Diesel Motor Co.

22.   Earlier this week, BT, MCI and Telefonica took stakes in Portugal Telecom.

23.   Earlier this week, the companies took stakes in Portugal Telecom, which should boost its fortunes in Portuguese-speaking Brazil.

24.   Executives at Deutsche Telekom said they were equally frustrated and now use Global One as an object lesson in the problems with taking minority stakes in other companies.

25.   Even Fidelity Biotechnology, which focuses on pure biotechnology companies, tempers its volatility by taking stakes in Schering-Plough and other traditional health care companies.

26.   Fernandez also confirmed that Huarte was poised to close an agreement with a major German construction company to take a stake in Huarte.

27.   First, though, BHF must be successful in taking a stake in Postbank, an autonomous financial services unit.

28.   Forehand said that he planned to make e-commerce the central part of the consulting firm and that the company intended to take stakes in clients more frequently.

29.   Forming partnerships with foreign companies and taking equity stakes in projects are other strategies.

30.   Generali took the stake in Axa earlier this year through a complicated series of mergers of its various French holdings which indirectly held stakes in Axa.