Public and private investors are also discovering the trend.

Germany exercises its vote through DaimlerChrysler and a consortium of public and private investors.

In this way, it would have given encouragement to public and private investors and facilitated the intervention of the European Investment Bank in various projects.

Mr. Davis said that he believed that the project would be financed by both public and private investors from the United States and China.

Swiss International began when parts of the bankrupt Swissair were grafted into a premium airline with 2.56 billion francs scraped together by public and private investors.

A joint investment plan with public and private investors in fourteen Kagoshima Prefecture municipalities established Japan Air Commuter.

The plan therefore was to identify and select public and private investors, with part coming from the EU's own resources, but Parliament took fright at that suggestion.

He said he knew of no other instance in which labor, management and public and private investors had joined to preserve a company as big as Colt's firearms division.

European Investment Bank funds act as catalysts for public and private investors in research and technological development, as well as trans-European networks and small and medium-sized enterprises.

That is why we are advocating a specific directive; a directive that brings with it certainty and legal security for public and private investors, whilst respecting local specificities and the principle of subsidiarity.

DaimlerChrysler, the automaker, said that it had cut its stake in European Aeronautic Defense and Space to 15 percent from 22.5 percent, selling the holding to public and private investors in a transaction worth nearly $2 billion.

Sacirbey admitted that his intense push for the 2001 Winter Goodwill Games will depend in part on the ability of Bosnia to attract public and private investors to build hotels and finance the continued reconstruction of the athletic sites.

But Mr. Turchin notes that the banks are not the only parties involved: the company has several billion dollars of debt held by other public and private investors who may not be inclined to be so cooperative and whose presence will certainly make the negotiation process more unwieldy.

Rubber Research Elastomerics Inc. of Minneapolis persuaded public and private investors to put up nearly $10 million for a recycling plant in northern Minnesota to make the granular "crumb rubber" it needed to produce a material it calls Tirecycle, for a number of household and industrial uses.

In a letter to Disney shareholders, the two former directors, Roy E. Disney and Stanley P. Gold, reiterated their call for votes to remove Mr. Eisner and cited a growing list of public and private investors who have said that they do not intend to support him.