Word: investments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Institutions seem to have a kind of life oftheir own in some ways. They have done otherthings, and it isn't as if...they haven't moved onthe matter of divestment. They have got aparticular policy. What we want them to have saidsort of categorically was we will not invest incompanies that are operating in South Africa--wewant them...
...Canadian consortium formed to invest in Eastern Europe purchased half the General Banking & Trust Co. of Budapest, the city's oldest bank, for $10 million. American cosmetics heir Ronald S. Lauder is the chairman of the group, the Central Europe Development Corp...
According to the report, Shortchanging Education, only Ireland and Australia invest less than the U.S. in basic education in terms of a percentage of gross national product. Of the 16 countries studied, Sweden spends the most (7%), followed by Austria (5.9%), Switzerland (5.8%), Norway (5.3%) and Belgium (4.9%). Denmark and Japan tied at 4.8%, while the U.S. spends only 4.1%. "If the U.S. were to increase spending for primary and secondary school up to the 'average' level found in the other 15 countries," the study says, "we would need to raise spending by over $20 billion annually...