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...just another attempt to get smoking thought of as acceptable behavior," Krevor added. "If the Columbian drug lords wanted to invest in America's educational system, would we want to accept their money...
...funds that it sorely needs to overhaul its schools and other public facilities. But the commonwealth does own a thriving telephone company that has a total value of more than $2 billion. So last week Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon proposed that Puerto Rico sell the phone company and invest the proceeds in two $1 billion funds. The commonwealth would use the interest from the funds to upgrade Puerto Rico's schools and rebuild its crumbling infrastructure, including its water and sewerage systems...
Many Asian-Americans automatically assume that they will attend college, as reflected by their lower high school dropout rates and earlier planning for college. Parents often invest much of their own resources to improve the education of their children in hopes of giving the children better opportunities than they themselves...
Mutual funds own 30% of all junk bonds. Funds that promise "high income" or "high yield" are generally the ones that invest heavily in junk. Most prudent fund managers have been switching during the past year to more creditworthy issues, including Kroger and Fort Howard Paper. Yet the depressed market value of most junk securities means that fund investors who sell out now "will take some pretty substantial losses," according to Brian Ternoey, an employee-benefits consultant in Princeton, N.J., who advises clients to wait for the market to rebound...
...debts and social problems. As Bush proclaimed in the State of the Union, we are the most productive nation in the world, at least for the moment. The very collapse of communism will save us billions. If we choose to consume our riches (and more) rather than invest and share them, that is a statement about our spiritual condition, not our economic one. Which brings us back to the question of greatness...