Word: investments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students participating in the discussion expressed anger that if the Faculty Council votes to ban ROTC from campus, Harvard will still accept research money from the Department of Defense and scholarship money from corporations that invest in South Africa...
Investigators are also probing allegations that Pharaon used B.C.C.I. funds to acquire the National Bank of Georgia for $18 million in 1978 and to invest $25 million in Miami's CenTrust Savings, which collapsed last year. Pharaon, whom the Federal Reserve wants to bar from U.S. banking, has denied any wrongdoing. But as authorities tried to serve him with a subpoena last week, he was believed to be sailing off the coast of Greece...
...eggs. Consumers are advised to seek guidance from either the American Fertility Society, based in Birmingham, or Resolve, a national infertility organization with headquarters in Somerville, Mass. "You need to be a careful consumer," warns Dr. Arthur Wisot, a Redondo Beach, Calif., infertility specialist. "If you're going to invest all your life's hopes and dreams, you should at least check out the qualifications of the medical group...
...take a long-term approach and handle long-term risk. Secondly, small amounts of our capital can generate huge leverage through co-financing with other investors. Not being profit oriented, we can afford to invest not just with an economic payoff in mind but in order to foster democracy. We can help ensure that the transition to a market economy is not only fast but fair...
...because we do not have enough savings -- again the tendency toward the short term. Yes, because economics is not a zero-sum game. Growth can create new resources. We have seen in the past, in Europe and in the U.S., that if you invest you can create more wealth than you started with. I am sure that in Europe at least, growth, far from depriving the Third World, will create more opportunity for growth elsewhere...