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TOKYO (Nikkei)--Management buyouts, in which a company is acquired by its executives, tend to provoke legal disputes. Typically, the management will buy out all the outstanding shareholders and then take the company private to free itself from shareholder pressure -- a strategy that often rubs some existing shareholders the wrong way.

TOKYO (Nikkei)--Apple Inc. and the band of companies that supply the parts and machines behind its string of hit products are members of a booming economic bloc, as it were. But without any guarantee that a manufacturer will remain a member, risks also lurk in the land of Apple.

TOKYO (Nikkei)--All 54 of Japan's commercial nuclear reactors will have shut down by May 5, when the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s (9505) power plant in the village of Tomari in Hokkaido is suspended for regular maintenance.