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...appointment as Urban Affairs Minister. But legal authorities investigating Tapie's businesses uncovered evidence of fraud, embezzle-ment and tax evasion - including financial irregularities at OM. Shortly before prison doors slammed behind him in 1997, new investors bought the humiliated and financially ruined OM. Despite invest-ments of $125 million since - mostly on new talent - OM stands at the brink of relegation and fans are furious. In desperation, the new owners turned to Tapie to save his old outfit, giving him control of team management and a reported stake in the club. Can political rehabilitation be far away...
...OXFAM helps these farmers form cooperatives so that they can invest in trucks, plants and have bargaining power when they're dealing with trade merchants. The coffee growers can therefore cut the middlemen, known as coyotes in South America, out of the process...
...conventional market, the farmer is really benefiting and it can have a real effect getting these farmers out of poverty," Brody says. "We've either doubled or tripled the amount of money that small scale farmers are getting. Some communities have been able to invest in schools and health clinic for the first time because of the impact of fair trade...
...rallying cry of the old economy was "Spend it while you have it." In good times, companies rushed to build plants and invest in R. and D. Then when the economy cooled, they froze their budgets and tried to slog through. But the New Economy has rewritten the rules. Even in the midst of the current slump, companies are showing that carefully targeted spending on new technology--from business software to computer-storage hardware--can boost the bottom line, often within just a few quarters, by increasing efficiency and lowering costs. In today's economy, there's a new rallying...
...slowing. Oracle, for example, was predicting 30% growth in earnings this year but revised that to announce that first-quarter growth would be less than 10%. Says Katrina Roche, chief of marketing for i2 Technologies, an e-business software maker based in Dallas: "Nobody is willing to blindly invest in technology the way they were 12 months...