Word: investments
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Finally, a very recent example, the Burroughs Corporation, which had in the past been selling computers to the government, was asked in the form of a shareholder resolution from a number of church groups to stop selling anything to the government, and they responded by saying they would not invest further in South Africa at all, and they would not knowingly sell either products or sales and service to any organization that was involved in oppressive work...
Once sacred Maoist principles are being abandoned for more efficient but heretical ideas such as industrial competition, higher incentive wages, and productivity bonuses. Private plots on which agricultural workers can raise and sell their own crops are making a comeback. Companies are now allowed to withhold some profits to invest as they wish. An editorial in the People's Daily urged further progress down the capitalistic road. "In the process of competition," it said, "a small number of enterprises will be eliminated because their products are of poor quality. What's wrong with that? It will encourage...
...course, this cost is highly speculative--Stanford did not even venture to estimate it. Harvard's estimates of $1.8-6.8 million annually for recurring costs are based on a Princeton study of the stock market in the years 1953-1968. This study demonstrated the overall greater profitability of investment in the large multinational corporations, which comprise the bulk of U.S. business interests. However, in the ten years since 1968 the multinationals have not fared nearly so well. Many investors now prefer to invest in other stocks, or in real estate, government bonds, etc. It is far from clear that...
...feel that the money a corporation has made to invest in Singapore, or wherever, came from this state, and they have a responsibility to put it back in" when they leave, Gallagher said...
...trading is always fast and furious on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, where high-rolling speculators invest in options to buy securities at a set price for a certain length of time...