Word: investment
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Social Rivals. Rumors abound of "slick guys from the North" who are about to invest in Plains. At least 34 corporations have registered in Plains (cost: $3) in order to use the town's name on theie letterheads. A few outsiders, slick or not, have made more substantial investments. A group of Canadian investors recently purchased 190 acres of farm land outside town for $325,000. They hope to install a campground and amusement park. A Georgia representative of Holiday Inns has looked into building a small motel on the highway between Plains and Americus...
...market. Rule 1 in energy conservation is that while people may for a while obey presidential exhortations to set thermostats at 65°, they will not cut back on energy use in the long run unless waste is made prohibitively expensive. Rule 2 is that energy companies will not invest the huge sums needed in costly domestic exploration for oil and gas unless they are assured of a profitable return. The best way to follow both rules would be to enact a relatively speedy dismantling of federal price controls and the awesome masses of red tape that have grown...
...store for a stabilized population. Among those who believe in the beneficial effects is Demographer Westoff: "ZPG will reduce pressures on the environment and on resources. It will probably increase per capita income. It will reduce pressure on governmental services. And it will give society an opportunity to invest more in the quality than the quantity of life...
...task force concludes that such innovations will be carried through only if the Faculty is somehow motivated to invest more of their time in teaching...
Defeat has a bitter taste for Vertol management as well. Says Vice President Charles Ellis, who headed the UTTAS project: "I haven't worked on anything else for six years. That's a lot of my life to invest in a program and be unsuccessful." However, he is gamely trying to forget and concentrate on winning the next big project: the $700 million Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS) helicopter contract to be awarded by the Navy this spring. Vertol managers claim they have solved the vibration problems that plagued their UTTAS models, and so have high hopes...