Word: co-op
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...Well, we had a co-op in Brooklyn Heights, which we sold last summer. We are now renting because I think that it is a good time to rent. I think short- dated Treasuries are a nice way to ride things out. You are being paid what is historically a good rate of interest, and you are going to get your money back. I think you ought to be very aware of the credit condition of your insurance company. There are outfits that rate the claims-paying ability of insurance companies, and people ought to ask their financial planners...
...objection to such appeals for intercession, but brokers, complained Father James Coen, head of the Catholic Information Center, to the New York Daily News, "are turning this into a first-class sales gimmick." Successful sellers are advised to exhume the statue and enshrine it in their new home. Co-op owners who have no yards may have to pray to someone else: St. Jude, patron of lost causes...
...country with much-needed venture capital, Andrew Sarlos, 58, a Hungarian who is the head of a major Toronto-based investment group, has raised $80 million for the new First Hungary Fund. In addition, Sarlos and a group of other Hungarian expatriates bought a 50% stake in Scala Co-op, Hungary's largest grocery chain, and a 50% share in Budapest General Banking and Trust. Zbigniew (Dick) Niemczycki, 43, a Warsaw-educated engineer who moved to the U.S. in 1977, has returned to Poland as an executive with SerVaas, an Indianapolis investment firm. The company's joint ventures in Poland...
...Encourage cooperatives. Public resentment over the price-gouging practices of some cooperatives has given conservative bureaucrats an excuse to tax them heavily. But since the excesses of some cooperatives stem primarily from a lack of competition, the co-op system should be expanded, not constrained...
...notebooks or yellow pads. Use handkerchiefs instead of paper tissues--they are cheaper; they don't break; they absorb well and they worked fine for our grandparents. Don't accept bags when you buy things--bring your own if you need one. Use recycled paper; the Boston Food Co-op in Allston sells a limited selection, along with many other environmentally unsound products. Another good source is the Earth Care Paper Company in Wisconsin...