Word: investable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making part of every organization grade-based, we hope to invest with equivalent value the places to be offered on a non-grade basis," the committee stated...
...increasingly resented by the generally less skilled and often unemployed blacks, who see the fruits of uhuru (freedom from colonial rule) falling into the Asians' laps instead of into theirs. The blacks feel that Asians do not open their businesses to capable young Africans, and that they invest their money abroad or send it to relatives. In Kenya, the KANU party of President Kenyatta has scolded the Asians for living out their lives in "a communal cocoon, having only the most superficial contact with their fellow inhabitants." A barefooted Tanzanian farmer, cheering anti-Asian demonstrations earlier this month, expressed...
...limit. The expert consensus so far: when doctors prescribe ten or twelve five-grain aspirins a day for persistent painful disorders such as arthritis, they should watch their patients closely for signs of anemia or kidney damage. And headache victims who become aspirin or APC addicts should invest in a visit to the doctor. It may be cheaper in the long...
...restrictions against converting the franc into other currencies, De Gaulle's government aimed at raising France's relatively low standing as an international financial center. Frenchmen can now hold accounts in foreign banks, pay for hotel bills, purchases and apartments abroad with a French check. Though foreign investment and borrowing in France remain subject to some restrictions, foreigners can now freely acquire up to 20% of the capital of a French firm, invest in French stocks, buy French property...
Reyre commands his remarkable complex by speed, secrecy and a computerlike memory for figures. Helping to guide the destiny of more than 100 companies, he surrounds himself with young engineers, not bankers. "You can't invest in modern industry without understanding the ticklish technical questions," he says, "and it's a lot easier to teach an engineer finance than to teach a financier engineering." So well does that formula work that Paribas profits ($5,000,000 last fiscal year) topped those of all other French banks, including the larger nationalized institutions...