Word: assets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Uphoff and producer Amy Wicklund thoroughly and effectively utilize the Kirkland Eight Ball, Harvard's newest performance space. The task of converting the Eight Ball, a small basement room, into a hospital would appear daunting, yet the finished product is believable. The size of the space is an asset--the proximity of the different rooms on stage to each other and to the audience enhances this drama's intimacy...
...syphilis contracted from a prior spouse. Promised revelations about what finally led Barry Sr. to sell prove anticlimactic: senior aides were ready to move on, making continued family operation unmanageable. What really deserted the Binghams was the faith that a family-owned newspaper is more than a mere capital asset. The book never proves that Bingham ownership was all that good % for the employees, or even necessarily for Louisville. But no one can miss the wreckage that ensued when the family ceased to believe that its ownership was, at the very least, good for the Binghams...
...best chance of making privatization pay off? Germany probably heads the list; transforming the eastern economy will be expensive, but the nation will have sufficient capital. In the Third World, countries like Mexico appear to be good bets. The Mexican government directs at least some of the proceeds from asset sales into improving education, health care and a crumbling infrastructure -- investments intended to pay off in future economic development. Using the money to pay off foreign debt, as Argentina has done, seems a riskier course. Unloading national assets without attracting new capital is somewhat akin to an individual's selling...
...been successfully selling off public companies since 1985 and stands a solid chance of making privatization pay off. But its experience is a cautionary tale: the former military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte did not have to worry about public opinion or the press, which opposed the asset sales. Between 1985 and 1989, the government sold 24 state enterprises, raising $1.7 billion...
...dearth of serious opposition, should it persist, could be Bush's greatest asset as he seeks to win a second term. The problem the Democrats face is neatly expressed by Barbara Kantorowicz of Shoreview, Minn., a single mother who ended nine years on welfare last year when she started work for a local social-service organization, the Family Violence Network. Meanwhile, her own day-to-day financial struggle goes on. "I'm struggling just as much as when I was on welfare," she sighs. Would she vote again for George Bush, as she did in 1988? Maybe. "There...