Word: investments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel that they will be valued over the long term, they may be more reluctant to go the extra mile, to think a little harder, to contribute. In the same way, if the employer feels this is not a long-term relationship, the employer may be more reluctant to invest in on-the-job training of that worker. There are companies that traditionally were very, very careful about laying off workers because they were so concerned about their corporate culture. Now they just fire people, sometimes with very little notice...
...currency." Thanks to an unrestrained government printing press run by Moscow's central bank (whose chairman is appointed by the parliament Yeltsin doesn't control), the ruble supply has tripled since last July. Now, with the inflation rate approaching 50% a month, no Westerner in his right mind would invest in Russia. For Yeltsin, says Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins University professor who wrote the Clinton transition team's Russia memo, "it's a chicken and egg thing. He'll never be in firm control politically until the economy improves, and the economy won't improve until he takes...
...date, the organization has arranged for $500 million in private sector commitments to invest in Los Angeles inner cities...
...call for higher excise taxes on liquor and tobacco as part of his eventual health-care reform program -- and even those "sin taxes" would not come anywhere near offsetting the costs of making health-insurance coverage universal. On a happier, though still controversial, note, Clinton unveiled a program to invest $17 billion of federal money over the next five years in civilian high- tech projects. Much of the cash would be diverted from military applications to development of such efforts as a car running on "clean" fuel and an "information superhighway" linking computers...
...story," Bill Clinton told Congress last month. "We all know that it saves money, ((and)) under ((my)) plan every eligible child will be able to get a head start. This is not just the right thing to do; it is the smart thing to do. For every dollar we invest today, we'll save three tomorrow...