A later study revealed that 23% of voters wanted to preserve control but mistakenly voted yes, and that 54% were against rent control but voted no.
But the rules of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange prohibit dual classes of stock and other types of corporate structures that let minority shareholders preserve control of companies.
EU enthusiasts such as Eirikur Bergmann of Iceland's European Movement think a deal could be struck to preserve control over fish stocks.
In some cases the very authors of constitutions broke the rules laid out in them to gain or preserve control over governments.
What is most worrisome to those fighting to preserve control over Kasumigaseki, the area of the city that is home to the national ministries, is that the movement for local control is spreading.
Russia would for the first time, in a "NATO at 20" council, join deliberations on major security issues like the war on terrorism and peacekeeping interventions, though the alliance would preserve control over membership and other core military issues.
Today, if you read, say, foreign policy journals or, in a farcical form, listen to the Republican debates, they're asking, "How do we prevent further losses?" On the other hand, the capacity to preserve control has sharply declined.
That marks a big change from the big Internet I.P.O.'s of the last several years, in which companies rolled out multiclass stock structures aimed at preserving control for the company's founders.
Often, setting up a foundation starts as a way to preserve control of a family business and to avoid taxes and death duties.Another study, by the Bertelsmann Foundation, reveals that 200 foundations a year were being created in Germany in the early 1990s; now, the birth rate is between 800 and 900 a year.
SN: Secondaries can let a company preserve control much longer, so it becomes an option at some point.
