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...savers. Since their goals are to expand their businesses and provide their children with the education they will need to move up in U.S. society, the new entrepreneurs tend to live frugally. Instead of spending their earnings on flashy cars and other items, the immigrants use their income to invest in the future...
Among the real estate wheeler-dealers, the Chinese tend to invest in housing, the Koreans in commercial property. Indeed, just as the turn-of-the-century immigrants clustered in certain kinds of business -- the Irish in politics and policing, Jews in the textile industry -- each new national group has its common calling. The division of labor establishes new, fairly benign stereotypes. Africans, mostly young men, sell sunglasses, umbrellas and baubles from blankets spread on Manhattan sidewalks. Albanians own apartment buildings. Greeks set up coffee shops, the walls invariably decorated with murals of the Parthenon. Koreans, it seems, suddenly own every...
Should they prevail, adherents would still have a problem. The formula for MDMA is available to anyone and cannot be repatented. Without the assurance of profits from exclusive production, no pharmaceutical company is likely to invest the millions of dollars it takes to test any drug for Government approval. Notes San Francisco Psychiatrist Jack Downing: "MDMA is an orphan that has nobody bidding to be its parent...
...Howard Hughes created the Medical Institute and gave it Hughes Aircraft as its only asset. This made the company accountable only to the institute's trustees, of which Hughes was the only one. That made Hughes Aircraft far freer than publicly owned companies to limit dividends and invest its profits as it saw fit in research and development...
...Harvard Corporation formed the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. In 1979 the Corporation actually voted its stock in favor of one of its portfolio corporations leaving South Africa because the company would not disclose information about its operations there. In 1981 the University announced it would no longer invest in companies that do more than half their business there and would continue intensive dialogue with portfolio companies that are not signatories to the Sullivan Principles. However sincere the Corporation's moral justifications for these moves, it is clear they have come because protests, sit-ins, and heightened debate have made...