Word: investments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...France and Italy. Other international monetary powers may be willing to take up some of the slack for a short while, but a real financing of Britain's 6 billion pound annual deficit could only come from the Arabs, and those ultra-security-conscious investors are hardly likely to invest very heavily in a country whose economic future must seem so unsettling to the capitalist...
...does a preacher with murky credentials draw a crowd in jaded New York City? Simple. You field a corps of 2,000 tireless, polite young buttonholers who spend weeks offering people free tickets. Invest $300,000 on publicity for the one-night stand-far more than Billy Graham has ever spent for an eight-day crusade. Along with the radio and TV spots and full-page newspaper ads, plaster posters of the smiling preacher on all conceivable wall space...
...housing tax credit" to be granted to developers, replacing the 7% investment tax credit now allowed to industry for capital expenditures. Developers currently can take little advantage of the credit because they buy little capital equipment; the plan would allow the credit on money they invest in new housing...
Bankers wanted to invest in Triborough's low-risk bonds or underwrite new bond issues for a quick profit. Moses could help. He could grant premiums to insurance companies, contracts to architects and builders, fees to lawyers. But in return he wanted total support, and he exacted it from all his petitioners...
...anger by offering them higher and higher sums for mining rights. The bids started with a "good-will" tender of $7,425 in 1971; they have since grown to a package including $891,000 in cash plus a 3.75% royalty, totaling $13,619,000. The company is willing to invest so much because the uranium deposit is conservatively valued at $300 million. In a plot only 755 ft. by 33 ft., there are more than 443,000 tons of uranium ore -roughly 1% of the world's known supply. The ore contains 47.4 lbs. of uranium per ton, more...