And next they assigned her to help lead negotiations to sell a 50.2 percent noncontrolling stake of Grupo Modelo to Anheuser-Busch.

Honda, which has been selling 1,000 natural gas Civics a year - about 60 percent at retail and the rest to corporate or government fleets - owns a noncontrolling stake in FuelMaker.

Under a tentative agreement with the Screen Actors Guild, talent agencies will soon be able to participate in the financing and distribution of films and television shows as well as have a noncontrolling interest in production companies.

In the end, Mr. Clinton paid a price: China backed away from its April offer to allow American telecommunications companies and insurance firms to take a 51 percent stake in Chinese companies, allowing only a noncontrolling stake of 50 percent.