Word: investers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...common dissatisfactions via malicious attacks. Professional planners, who are thoroughly trained in the social and behavioral sciences, share her concern. Most of Jacobs' slanted facts are correct, but her whipping boy-should be the quacks, who parade as public or private planners because they have funds to invest or can bend over a drawing board...
...successful businessman (wholesale drugs) in his own right. Moscoso knew what Puerto Rico had that mainland investors wanted: a stable government, good transportation facilities, a large, increasingly skilled and relatively low-cost labor market. By offering generous tax exemption as well, he encouraged 834 companies to invest more than $500 million in the island; the island's economy shot ahead until today its $622 annual per capita income is more than double the Latin American average...
Setting Sparks. In hopes of setting off some new sparks in the economy, the Administration has turned to wooing businessmen with a will. To stimulate capital investment, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon has announced plans to offer better tax write-offs next year to encourage companies to invest in new plant and equipment. Dillon also promised that the Administration will "do everything it can" to avoid a general tax increase next year. "The income tax burden," said Dillon flatly, "is high enough...
...betterment of their nation, their communities and their fellow men,'' he concluded that "the public as the investor in an agency has the right to know the facts. The agency as the recipient of public funds has the duty to disclose fully to those who invest in its activities . . The predominant desire of the agencies too frequently is for self-aggrandizement and self-perpetuation to the detriment of overriding public interests. It does not take over 100,000 voluntary agencies ... to provide private health and welfare services...
...real estate holdings worth more than $26 million. In the past two years he has reshaped the Phoenix skyline by throwing up three major office buildings, including the town's tallest-the porcelain blue 20-story Guaranty Bank Building. Now, bent on expanding beyond Arizona, he plans to invest $20 million in baby skyscrapers in Southern California, last week broke ground for a $3,000,000 bank building in Roswell, N. Mex. "Fast as Phoenix is growing," says Murdock, "I can build office buildings faster than the town can absorb them...