Word: investments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another $9 million has been approved for roof repairs. If the rusting parking garage ever opens, each of its 1,200 spaces will have cost an estimated $62,500. But the plan, in keeping with President Reagan's free-market philosophy, depends on getting private developers to invest in the station. The Government hopes to take bids soon from those interested in filling the cavernous station with boutiques, restaurants, offices and hanging plants...
...Washington conducting a maverick crusade against special-interest bills, Pfeifer began showing strength in the polls. Suddenly PAC money started flowing to the challenger. Says a Pfeifer aide: "More than anything else, a poll will speak to the PAC community. They're like a business trying to invest." One-third of Pfeifer's campaign donations are now from PACs...
Less hurt by the walkout is the Ford Motor Co., which decided earlier this year to become the exclusive auto sponsor of the 1982 World Series for $1.1 million per game. Said Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell: "We anticipated the strike and didn't invest as much in N.F.L. football this season...
...institute would be a joint venture between Cornell and four or five corporations willing to invest approximately $1 million each in the institute over an initial five-year period Patents secured by the institute would be held exclusively by the university, but the sponsoring corporations would be granted royalty free licenses to use them...
...makes and guarantees loans and sponsors foreign tours. Barco International Inc., an Ohio-based agribusiness firm, discovered the largest pig herds in Southeast Asia on a trip to Thailand in July and plans to build a slaughterhouse there. After the same trip, Hawaiian Holiday Macadamia Nut Co. decided to invest $9 million there to grow cashews and macadamia nuts and to produce chocolate candy...