51.   KKR also insists that management of its companies take equity stakes.

52.   Ken Burke of Mabon Securities suggested that Oracle may have taken its stake in Gupta as much for an investment as a takeover tool.

53.   Landlords are taking financial stakes in new carriers in exchange for giving those carriers the sometimes exclusive right to install equipment.

54.   Last year, CS Holding and Swiss Reinsurance took stakes in each other and formed three joint ventures.

55.   Lufthansa Chief Executive Juergen Weber confirmed that taking a stake in SAA is a possibility in the future.

56.   Meantime, Metro executives dismissed the suggestion that it might take a stake in Europe Online, a venture led by the Burda GmbH media company.

57.   MCA Inc. and its new owner Seagram Co. have expressed interest in taking a stake or forming a distribution alliance.

58.   More recently, Morgan has also started taking ownership stakes in some of the companies it advises.

59.   Motorola and NEC are both expected to take stakes in the money-losing French computer maker Cie des Machines Bull.

60.   Murdoch added that the Baby Bells have not taken a stake with their partners as MCI is doing.