Word: investments
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...quite the shrewd and worldly businessman he thinks he is. When Pascal proposes that they throw a scrumptious, sumptuous banquet, promising to supply a celebrity (Louis Prima, the old-time band leader) whose patronage, Pascal assures them, will bring saving glamour and publicity to their enterprise, they invest the last of their capital in the plan. On one level this turns out to be a bad deal. For the pressures of the big night bring out the worst in a lot of its key participants. But it does messily resolve a lot of romantic muddles involving three terrific actresses (Isabella...
...critical category of profit. Coke pockets 30' for every dollar's worth of product it sells outside the U.S. Pepsi earns less than 7', a figure it hasn't been able to improve. This difference is enormous when you consider the sums of money these two companies have been investing across the planet. Coke for instance, is doubling its investment in Russia to $500 million next year. In China it has plunked down another $500 million. This year the company will invest some $1.5 billion worldwide. "You cannot jump-start things in this business. You have to build that infrastructure...
...second sanctions bill also looked unpalatable when Republican Senator Alfonse d'Amato proposed it last year. The bill languished until the bomb attacks on U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and the suspicious explosion of TWA Flight 800 last month. After that a version affecting only new investment of more than $40 million in petroleum development sailed through Congress unopposed. Senator Orrin Hatch reflects the mood of many Republicans when he says, "I don't find it acceptable that our key allies don't agree with us about dealing with terrorism. As long as our allies invest in terrorist states, that...
...When corporate behemoths spin off divisions, they often cite the need to "focus on our core competencies" (translation: "We couldn't run this thing") or to "unlock value for investors" ("We made stupid acquisitions, and now we're dumping them"). 3M had to make hard choices about where to invest its money. Imation lost out because of its lousy earnings compared with other businesses. So out the door it goes, with a bunch of products and patents and three years of prominent use of the 3M brand name with them...
...real problems, though, come in figuring how to pay for this largess. To begin with, Dole is siding with supply-side economic theorists--whom he once derided--and their argument that tax cuts spur growth by giving consumers more money to spend and businessmen more to invest, thus creating additional tax revenues to help pay for the tax cuts. Dole is figuring that a quarter of the $551 billion in cuts can be recaptured this way. That's rather modest by the standards of earlier supply-siders, but still very iffy...