Word: investments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion company to improve one's prospects. Or so Swedish automaker Saab-Scania AB hopes. Saab last week agreed to sell General Motors a 50% interest in its car-making operations, which had 1988 sales of $2.6 billion, for some $600 million, plus a promise that GM will invest another $100 million. Saab, which also makes trucks and aircraft, will spin the auto holdings into a subsidiary to carry out the deal...
...hauling cash out of the U.S. has its drawbacks. The interest revenue lost while cash is in transit pains a drug dealer as much as it would a corporate financial officer. And since narcotraffickers see America as a safe and profitable haven for their assets, they often launder and invest their cash in the U.S. The first and trickiest step is depositing the hot cash in a U.S. financial institution. Reason: the IRS requires all banks to file Currency Transaction Reports for deposits of $10,000 or more. During the early 1980s, launderers got around this scrutiny by employing couriers...
Coalition members plan to monitor which companies abide by the Valdez Principles and to publicize the findings. In that way, environmentally conscious citizens would be able to decide which firms are best to buy products from, invest in and work for. If this strategy succeeds, companies will find that protecting the environment will be the best way to protect profits...
...sense this is good. (And of course it's very good if you don't yet own a house.) In the U.S., we need to invest relatively less on expanding our living space and more on retooling our factories. We need fewer real estate agents and more teachers, fewer mortgage brokers and more engineers. So if people get the notion they'll make more money investing in stocks and bonds than in homes -- good! To succeed long-term, we need to save a little more and consume a little less...
...Reich built on the ashes of NATO." One solution, he suggested, was to make the transformation of the East bloc a "European task. If there is concern about the re-emergence of a German superpower, the best of all ways to get a lever on it would be to invest in a West European relief and aid operation in East Germany and create a European orientation to that process...