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Foreign investors are looking for "sexy deals," according to Muzaffer Yildirim, co-founder of a deluxe movie chain, Mars Entertainment Group, in which U.S. private international investment firm Colony Capital recently acquired a sizable stake. "It's very recent that direct investment came into Turkey," explains Markus Lehto, the managing director of Kanyon, who is well qualified to comment, given that he was formerly an investment banker in New York. "It was less than $1 billion two years ago and will be $15 billion this year and probably up to $25 billion next year...
...goes down, nothing is more glamorous than being able to hold everything in an itty-bitty clutch. Small enough to grasp with a hand or tuck under the arm, the best of the bunch come with a glimmering fa�ade. Uber-trendy Botkier makes one with a chain, while Anya Hindmarch and Salvatore Ferragamo offer more traditional, ladylike silhouettes. These diminutive accessories are an easy way to incorporate metallics into the wardrobe...
...Surgical Hospital. Lincoln's inpatient and ambulatory surgeries halved, and by 2005 the hospital was $8 million in the red. "They've gone beyond cherry-picking," says Stone. "They've removed virtually everything they could take out of this facility." He is selling the hospital to a for-profit chain...
...needs but on entrepreneurial requirements." Much of the growth is coming from cardiologists and orthopedists, who increasingly own such devices. It angers radiologists, who rely on referrals, and even imaging-center executives. "There should be some relief on the physician self-referral problem," says Bret Jorgensen, CEO of the chain InSight Health. "It's the single biggest reason imaging centers have been growing so rapidly." Physicians say much of the supposedly excessive testing is defensive. "If you fail to do a test and there's a bad outcome," says Dr. Kim Allan Williams, a nuclear cardiologist at the University...
...been supporting local businesses in the Square for generations.” According to Gray, the University currently owns 30 storefronts in the Square, almost all of which house independent businesses.“We don’t rent to banks. We don’t rent to chain stores. We accept significantly less rent for our space than we could,” Power says. “We worked very hard to support local independent businesses at significant cost to Harvard.”‘THE GOOD GUYS’Some of Harvard?...