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Investor-owned corporations also have advantages in raising money. As medicine has become more capital intensive with the influx of expensive high-technology devices, hospital administrators have had to look for new sources of funding. Industry experts estimate that U.S. hospitals will spend about $163 billion on plant and equipment...
Chemically, only carbon can form the extra-strong double bonds with other elements needed to make certain complex molecules, the building blocks of life.
Wald refuted the claim that silicon, not carbon, could be the basis of other life. Silicon cannot form chemical double bonds, and therefore, forms crystalline chains instead of discreet molecules.
(8 of 11) worthiness of borrowers. Result: a portfolio that included $2.3 billion in bad loans. At some other ailing banks, problems can be traced further down the organizational ladder. Inexperienced traders at Chase Manhattan lost some $285 million in 1982 by lending U.S. Treasury bonds, notes and bills to...
Harvard's endowment is about 46 times larger than Radcliffe's and accordingly. Harvard has much more complex investment strategy. While Radcliffe pays four outside managers in New York, Boston and San Francisco to keep its coffers full, Harvard sports a 70-member, in-house investment stall of its own...