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Hart should announce a comprehensive plan of action to revive the economy. Why not set up a venture-capital agency to help start-up companies? Assemble twenty top corporate leaders to assess industrial prospects, and then let them choose high-growth sectors to invest in. Japan and West Germany have set up such programs with success...
Evidence suggests a correlation between success in the polls and success in fundraising. Those with money to donate are less likely to invest in the unpromising future of a candidate struggling in the polls. Contributions translate into political favors only if the candidate gains office...
Putnam convinced Yale, Princeton, MIT, Notre Dame, Stanford, Wellesley (where he served as chairman of the college's finance committee), and other colleges to invest in the fledgling company at costs ranging from a minimum $5000 to $400,000 the size of Harvard's initial stake. Those who bought the most did the best...
Last August, amid fears that the modest 7.5% devaluation would soon be followed by larger ones, speculators began dumping bank stocks in order to invest in U.S. dollars. The sell-off grew so heavy that the Tel Aviv stock exchange closed on Oct. 7. Three days later, government officials declared a 23.5% devaluation. When the market reopened two weeks later, the value of the stocks plunged 17% in a single day. To prop up their sagging shares, traditionally one of the most popular and profitable Israeli investments, seven banks pumped more than $1 billion into the stock market...
...plants and in five years chopped BL's work force from 192,000 to 108,000, prompting union leaders to denounce him as a "bloody Hitler." Using a mixture of threats and bluster, Edwardes cut through a thicket of antiquated factory-floor work habits. Meanwhile, he began to invest heavily in programmable robots and computers to help engineers design and manufacture autos. One result: output has risen in BL's Austin Rover group from 5.9 to 14 cars per worker per year since...