Word: investments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slow practical progress or technical complexity. "What people are looking for," says Molander, "is someone who will say, 'Here is the path to the solution to the problem.' But it's characteristic of this problem that thoughtful people don't know the answer yet." To invest so much energy and hope in campaigns for a freeze, he believes, is a bit misguided. Says he: "There are those who say the whole house of cards will fall into place once we have a freeze. That is clearly not true...
...addition, American steelmakers have been skimping on the capital invest ments required to keep their factories up to date and efficient. Many outdated plants have been in operation too long and are badly in need of modernization and new investment in order to compete with fac tories in Japan and West Germany...
...Thatcher's view, Britain must make the islands economically viable and militarily secure after the war. Her formula for doing that calls for multinational invest ments and an international peace-keeping force that would include the U.S. Thatcher believes that the presence of even a small force of U.S. troops on the islands would persuade the Argentines not to launch any further assaults. As she pointedly remarked last week, "When the Americans asked us to join them in a multinational force in the Sinai, I said yes, be cause it helped peace in that area...
...decided, Britain would want the security of the Falklands to be guaranteed by a number of countries in the Southern Hemisphere plus the U.S. Britain would also be faced with the cost of repairing the war damages, but would want to attract as many nations as possible to invest in developing the islands. Says Foreign Secretary Pym: "The best future for the islanders will be in rebuilding. If there is peace, stability and friendship in the whole region, people are more prosperous and their economic future is brighter." Pym also feels that the Falklands and Argentina must work out good...
...make one. Eventually, Brian and I walked away. The whole 'movie game' is just one more useless experience." He wishes the studios would put some of their profits into development of new talent: "If each studio would take $1 million profit per big movie and invest it in film schools and writing programs, we'd have the industry that David O. Selznick and Irving Thalberg created." The director has given $500,000 to the U.S.C. film program. "We must become like Walter Huston in Treasure of Sierra Madre-we must put the mountain back...