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...into the deal. Bush had met Good at one of the aggressive speculator's lavish parties, and they had become friends. Good opened a $750,000 line of credit for Bush, promised more and flashed visions of wealth before his new chum. He even lent Bush $100,000 to invest in a hot commodities tip. The tip fizzled, and Good forgave the loan, an arrangement Bush later acknowledged as "fishy...
...clean up social problems," he says, "then we can have people willing to create jobs, use the goods and services and invest in Central Square. If the social problems are not resolved, Central Square will remain...
...Invest in personal energy conservation: an auto tune-up, home insulation and, when you need new ones, the most efficient appliances and vehicles...
...Some of the mutual funds that invest in stocks of a particular country, like the New Germany Fund, which immediately shot up to a 70% premium over its intrinsic value when it was launched last year, may make sense now that euphoria has turned to euphearia and premiums have turned to discounts. I bought a little of the Turkish Fund, traded on the New York Stock Exchange, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, not because I know the first thing about Turkey but because it was trading at a 35% discount and I thought Turkey might somehow benefit from its newly...
...Former EPA chief William Ruckelshaus, for example, is now chairman of Browning-Ferris Industries, one of the largest waste-treatment outfits in the country. In October, after the mostly Hispanic residents of Azusa, Calif., complained that expansion of a BFI-operated landfill would poison the groundwater, BFI offered to invest $20 million to clean up the contamination. The expansion was approved...