Kodak's joint-stock companies, which I call foreign investor shareholding corporations, or FISCs, have allowed the company to achieve a high degree of operational control.
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The FISCs eliminate the trade-off between management control and market access by granting local partners minority stakes in return for their business assets, such as factories and trucks.
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What's more, the FISCs are well placed to obtain quick listings on the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges, making it easier for them to raise new capital.
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Thus his reelection campaign will let him do what Ted Kennedy did in 2000 : batten down his base, polish his record, and emerge with a flush campaign fisc.
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The FISC is a group of federal judges who meet ( in secret, of course ) to ensure the government doesn't overstep its bounds in conducting secret surveillance.
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Once fresh Frankish conquests were no longer forthcoming, constant redivision of the " fisc " among heirs reduced Merovingian kingship to a cluster of competitive kinglets subsisting on inadequate resources.
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First, FISA allows the Justice Department to obtain warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ( FISC ) before or up to 72 hours after the beginning of the surveillance.
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It also awards grants and bursaries, sets professional standards ( with Field Identification Skills Certificates ( FISCs ) ), and works in an advisory capacity for governments and NGOs.
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Villages that are known to have possessed commune status in the 10th century became estates of the fisc, after which they might be ceded to a monastery or lay person.
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The Fisc argues that the later policy changes in the 1980s involving beneficiary eligibility may have a time lag, meaning the causes of those changes are just now being felt.
