Word: investment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of sleeping terror of some condition which we refuse to imagine. In a way, if the Negro were not here, we might be forced to deal within ourselves and our own personalities with all those vices, all those conundrums, and all those mysteries with which we have invested the Negro race. Uncle Tom is, for example, if he is called Uncle, a kind of saint. He is there, he endures, he will forgive us, and this is a key to that image. But if he is not Uncle, if he is merely Tom, he is a danger to everybody...
...URGE DENOMINATIONS TO INVEST THEIR MONEY HEAVILY IN BUILDINGS. "It is self-evident that the chances of church union are in inverse proportion to the amount of money and power invested in ecclesiastical headquarters...
...England trade group in Boston, Connor noted that U.S. companies account for one tenth of Latin America's gross national product-and pay one fifth of all taxes, and produce one third of all exports. Yet, he continued, while the Alliance asks for an additional $300 million investment each year from U.S. business, U.S. companies during the first half of last year took out an estimated $29 million more than they put in. Why? "Would you invest in an atmosphere of rising anti-Americanism, unpredictable new taxes, revolutions that occur at the rate of two or three every...
...this ridicule, the introduction of the French modern masters into the U.S. was a huge success. Davies helped build the impressionist collection of Lizzie P. Bliss; Glackens sold Albert C. Barnes on the virtues of the Armory's Cézannes; Kuhn got John Quinn to invest in modern art. Collectors Walter Arensberg and Stephen C. Clark both bought from the show. The Metropolitan Museum of Art became the first U.S. museum to buy a Cézanne; a San Francisco dealer snapped up Duchamp's Nude sight unseen. As a matter of fact, Duchamp and his brother...
...most of these ventures. U.S. hotel chains invest little money themselves. Except for recent deals in The Netherlands and Rome, Hilton owns no share at all. Local governments provide funds or loans and tax incentives to investor syndicates that raise capital from such sources as Swiss banks, cautious pension funds, Texas oilmen and international millionaires. Investor appetites are whetted by such success stories as Intercontinental's Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut, which cost $9,500,000 when it went in business last year and is now valued at $20 million...