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...invest for years. It should have been more important earlier...I think it would be a terrible mistake if we didn’t invest in it more,” Venky said...
That is the quandary facing the U.S. auto industry, particularly General Motors as it wrestles with how much to invest in hybrid gas-electric cars. Over the past year, as gas has hovered around $2 a gallon, hybrids made by Toyota and Honda have gained a small but growing following in the U.S. Though hybrids account for less than 1% of the estimated 17 million new cars to be sold this year, they could make up 3% of the market by the end of the decade and potentially as much as 20%, according to a study by consulting firm Booz...
...petition—which was forwarded widely over e-mail list-servs Sunday night—calls on University President Lawrence H. Summers “to publicly state that the University will not invest in any corporation that conducts business with the Sudanese government for as long as Sudan is in violation of international norms of human rights...
Once the IOP was faced with a reminder of its exclusion of the Greens from various events in the past, they agreed to host the Presidential Debate. Nonetheless, I was warned that there wouldn’t be very high attendance, and the IOP would be forced to invest a great deal of money in opening up the JFK Jr. Forum to host the event, a significant cost for such an “insignificant” event. Much to the IOP’s surprise, however, the debate was attended by more than 200 excited spectators despite the fact...
...Leaders in Beijing want to avoid the fate of other oil-poor countries like South Korea, which buys all of its crude on the open market and is therefore exposed to sharp price rises. The way to do that is to invest in exploration and development in countries that have oil fields but lack the capital or technology to exploit them. Once Chinese companies have a stake in oil coming out of the ground, even if it originates abroad, they'll have secured long-term supplies independent of the world's fickle prices. The process of overseas exploration began...