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...canceling expansion plans. Their cutbacks proved a boon to Japanese companies; they kept building plants and developing products, and thus were ready to grab new markets when business picked up. That lesson did not go unnoticed. During the depths of the 1981-82 recession, U.S. companies continued to invest. "We maintained our level of research-and-development spending," recalls Norman Neureiter, a vice president of Texas Instruments, one of the world's largest manufacturers of memory chips...
...have more force if Harvard owned stock in companies doing all or most of their business in South Africans. But that is not the case. The companies form which we are asked to divest typically do less than one percent of their business in South Africans. We do not invest in these concerns because of their South Africans operations: It would be more nearly correct to say that we invest despite those operations...
...really irresponsible for Harvard to invest the money alumni donate imprudently," Rosen explains...
...says Stephen Trott, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division. "Without corroboration, you're probably dead in the water." In the De Lorean case, the prosecution thought it had plenty of corroboration: dozens of audio-and videotapes in which the industrialist seemed to agree to invest in a 220-lb. cocaine deal. But the jurors indicated in interviews after the acquittal that they regarded the tapes as inconclusive; they were more concerned about the credibility of the witnesses and their actions in setting up the sting. While Hoffman was unflappable during his 18 days on the witness...
...which American investors will continue to pay taxes on bond earnings while foreigners will not. For this reason, John Heimann, former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, calls the tax repeal a "cynical decision" that invites abuses. American drug dealers and other tax dodgers could use foreign middlemen to invest their cash tax-free in U.S. bonds...