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...sought to buy out minority owners of its Houston-based Shell Oil subsidiary. Royal Dutch offered $55 a share, or $5.2 billion, for the approximately 30% of the U.S. firm that it does not already own. Said Sir Peter Baxendell, Royal Dutch senior executive: "This will enable us to invest and operate within the U.S. and abroad without any obstructions that might result from the presence of minority shareholders...
...figure skaters usually invest all their hopes in one particular woman and, lately, no special man, but this time there are two eminent females, 1983 World Champion Rosalynn Sumners and 1982 World Champion Elaine Zayak, as well as the world's best male skater for the past three years, Scott Hamilton. A compact strongman, Hamilton should be the royal presence in these games and is thought to have a Heiden's lock on the first U.S. men's singles gold medal since David Jenkins...
...stock, raising $12.8 bilion. That is almost nine times more capital than was raised by new firms in 1982 and even more than the amount for all the years since 1971 put together. Mutual funds and pension funds, big institutional buyers and individual shareholders have all anxiously sought to invest in the new firms...
Although many school managers across the country routinely invest their tax dollars, Pennsylvania districts have consolidated their revenues in order to negotiate top interest rates. Some states, Virginia among them, do not allow school districts to make their own investment decisions, but the idea of a pool is beginning to catch on. Michigan and Illinois are working with E.F. Hutton to set up an investment fund early in 1984. Comments James Betchkal, associate director of the Washington-based National School Boards Association, which is helping to organize the plan: "A lot of school districts are money poor, but very...
...March, will be almost immediately replaced by Big Pine III. El Salvador will doubtless hold its presidential elections on schedule, March 25, but Salvadoran citizens do not seem aroused or optimistic about the voting. As far as U.S. policy is concerned, Central America is no place to invest high hopes. Right now, averting a crisis seems good enough...