Word: investments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entrepreneurs: Take advantage of those incapacitated couples so devoted they will invest in any Valentine's Day gimmick. Sell Valentine's Day Dinners at the Union. Couples could choose from sedate Seafood Salad Sweetheart plates or the more daring Luscious Lasagne Lover meals. Don't forged to stick a cherry-flavored Valentine " sucker" on top of each dish...
...techniques for keeping down the price of new construction. In South Boston a bricklayers union reduced its overhead on 18 units of moderate- income housing by obtaining a $1.5 million construction loan from a local bank at below prime rate. The reason for the discount: the union agreed to invest $1.5 million of its pension fund in the bank's certificates of deposit. In nearby Somerville, Mass., the nonprofit Somerville Corp. used $484,000 from a 1984 federal Urban Development Action grant to attract more than $2 million in other funding. The money enabled Somerville Corp. to build...
Poland's political reconciliation with the West had picked up speed a week before, when Poland's General Jaruzelski visited Italy and was received with full diplomatic honors. Italian industrialists pledged to invest several billion dollars during the next several years...
...just like retail stores, banks are offering a trade-off that they believe most customers will accept: more products in exchange for less personal service. Today's depositors with as little as $500 to invest will find that banks give them more possibilities than ever before. Banks now offer an array of money-management accounts and even discount stock-brokerage service. Banks have vastly improved upon old-time bankers' hours of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. New York's Citibank boasts that 80% of its depositors use its 24-hour automatic-teller machines and that more than half...
According to the Oberlin investment policy, the college will not invest in any companies that provide strategic products or services to the South African police or military. In addition, Oberlin will not invest in companies that do not sign and comply with the Sullivan Principles...