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...other hand, the weakening market means that oilmen will be less willing to invest the millions, and sometimes even billions, of dollars needed to explore for new sources of crude. That, in turn, could lead to a renewed supply squeeze in two or three years. Energy Analyst Constantine Fliakos, of the Merrill Lynch investment brokerage firm, warns: "There is really no doubt that demand eventually will bounce back; the question is simply when...
...exactly trust busting but it will, they say, enhance American industry's ability to complete with Japan and Germany. Even more controversial is another Thurow suggestion, seconded by Felix Rohatyn, that the Federal government create a sort of central economic planning agency. This would allow the government to invest in concerns that have great potential, but because of their risky nature might have trouble attracting private funding--companies, for example, formed to investigate and produce alternate energy sources...
...have long supported complete divestiture of Harvard's holdings in South Africa. The Corporation's 1978 pledge not to invest in banks that loan money directly to the South African regime was a good first step toward that end--especially since removal of Harvard's bank investments represents a more tangible statement than its purely moral votes on ineffectual shareholder resolutions. That the ban on the bank investments was absolute was its greatest strength; as President Bok himself wrote in 1978," ...a general policy of making loans for projects which advance the welfare of the whole population is too difficult...
...former marketing manager at Intel, a computer-chip manufacturer. When Markkula offered his expertise and $250,000 of his own money, Jobs and Wozniak made him an equal partner. Markkula helped arrange a credit line with the Bank of America and persuaded two venture capital firms to invest in Apple...
...News, Van Sauter, a large and relaxed ex-newspaperman and station manager, thinks news can gain from the energy of sports coverage. He believes that sports bring the viewer (in a phrase he found in a textbook somewhere) "the sweet resolution of anxiety." Viewers make an emotional investment in a player or team that intensifies their watching interest, and, by the end of the game, their hopes have been satisfied or their worries confirmed. Sauter thinks viewers also invest emotionally in people they see in the news. Trouble is, there is no final score anxieties, the end of a newscast...