61.   Nearly all the big ones have taken stakes in online trading companies, including an array of virtual stock-trading forums known as electronic communications networks.

62.   NEC Corp. and several other industrial partners have also agreed to take stakes.

63.   Networks can now freely take stakes in entertainment shows, intensifying the Cane and Abel sibling rivalry between the news and entertainment divisions.

64.   News of the investment came amid declines in Southeast Asian currencies and stock markets that encouraged other U.S. insurers to take new stakes in the region.

65.   One way for Vin and Sprit to shore up its prospects is to take a stake in one of the bidders.

66.   PEC Israel Economic Corp., a holding company that takes stakes in Israeli ventures, is one such company.

67.   Pioneer rejected the offer, which was never formalized, and the following year Monsanto took a stake in Dekalb.

68.   Price is best known for taking a stake and then pushing for a higher share price at Chase Manhattan Corp., which eventually merged with Chemical Banking Corp.

69.   Press reports had portrayed Bagdasarian as the next Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. whose strategy involved taking stakes in other publicly traded companies.

70.   Private equity funds generally take stakes in companies they hope will become publicly traded.