In 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt met with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, offering legitimacy in return for a guaranteed supply of oil.
They provide not only a guaranteed supply of young members -- more than 410,000 at last count -- but also enormous financial support.
On the other hand, any country that was truly interested in developing nuclear power for peaceful purposes would undoubtedly welcome a guaranteed supply of nuclear fuel.
China offers to provide poor countries with schools, hospitals and the like (usually financed by soft loans and built by China's infrastructure giants) in return for a guaranteed supply of oil or some other raw material.
The companies have offered to donate three years' doses and then calculate a sales price for more; Doctors Without Borders is asking instead for a guaranteed supply at $10 a dose.
The six-nation group argues that Tehran already has a stockpile that would last its medical reactor 10 years and that its proposals would offer the Iranian a guaranteed supply of 20%-enriched fuel rods for that reactor.
More important for Corus, itself the product of the 1999 combination of British Steel and Royal Hoogovens of the Netherlands, acquiring C.S.N. would give it a guaranteed supply of iron ore from C.S.N.'s Casa de Pedra mine, at a time when control of world ore supplies is concentrating in the hands of a few suppliers.
In addition to developing the new fields, it wants to build five new refineries, to generate more electricity and to build a network of gas pipelines in Brazil.Petrobras raised $10 billion from China's government earlier this year, in return for promising Sinopec, a Chinese state oil firm, a guaranteed supply of up to 200,000 barrels of oil a day for ten years.
