Volvo's stockholders approved a sale of shares worth 11.2 billion crowns, or $1.82 billion, in Volvo's car, truck and bus operations to state-owned Renault.
So far, the government has not said that it would return the Yukos operation to state hands.
Some activists argue this has been the most disturbing element of the controversy, equating the operation to state-sanctioned sex abuse.
The partnership will allow MGM to expand its gaming operations to 15 states upon the completion of the deal, after obtaining sublicenses with Boyd in eight states nationwide.
In less than four months, Republicans have wiped away rules covering everything from limits on the dumping of waste from surface-mining operations to enlarging states' power to offer retirement accounts to private-sector workers.
The surge coincided with Japan-based MT Gox, Bitcoin's biggest exchange, announcing a tie-up with US firm CoinLab to bring its operations to the States.
Northern European Union countries have so far largely left rescue operations to southern states such as Italy.
The newer Concerned Veterans group has been expanding its field operations to more states, partly with an eye toward mounting an ambitious get-out-the-vote effort in 2016, according to sources and the group's own website.
The summer intern Yiyuan Zhang sets out to analyze the State Water Project's future water delivery and power operations to optimize state-wide benefits and reduce costs.
A1 State May Oversee Buffalo The City of Buffalo is faced with having to turn over its financial operations to a state board that would oversee nearly all city spending.
