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...financial side of Allston planning will be particularly important. Before bulldozers can clear the way for new buildings, Faust will have to woo donors to invest in the projects...
...Discontent grew larger when the ACSR seemed to renege on its one concession from 1978—that the Corporation would not invest in any banks making loans to the South African government directly—less than a year afterwards, when news emerged that the University had maintained its investments in Manufacturers Hanover trust...
...available at a low cost," says Oliver Friedrichs, a director at the security response unit of Symantec, a U.S. software firm. Internet chat rooms and bulletin boards can furnish would-be saboteurs with instructions on launching their own strike. And defending against these attacks is tricky. Large corporations can invest in clever hardware that detects odd patterns of requests for its websites and routes away the suspicious ones. Smaller firms, not used to handling huge volumes of traffic and lacking a big budget for security, are more exposed. And in the face of massive onslaughts like those against Estonia, even...
...under the control of an independent commission. The government has even set up an account at the Federal Reserve in the U.S. to hold all the cash that it expects to flood in. "We've learned the lessons of Africa," says Praxeres. "We have to use the money to invest in education, infrastructure and health - a future that is sustainable...
...Nonsense, says Weisman, who notes the request seeks only names of visitors, not the substance of their discussions. "This Vice President has been given an extraordinary amount of power and authority," she said. "The more authority you're going to invest in an office, the greater the need there has to be for transparency in some degree of public accountability...