Word: investor
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...electricity, and other plants now being built or planned will raise that figure to 12% within three years. The Common Market's Six get only 1.5% of their power from the atom, but that output will be trebled by plants now abuilding. France, the Continent's biggest investor in atomic power, intends to increase its generating capacity as much as tenfold by 1970. The Market's nuclear authority, Euratom, predicts that by 1980 the Six will be producing 280 billion kilowatt-hours of nuclear power, or 70% as much as they now get from all power sources...
...rest at 930 - up only half a point for the week. At the height of trading, the exchange's high-speed ticker ran twelve minutes behind, but had it not been for this new, computerized equipment, the tape would have lagged by 90 minutes, and many an investor would have become frightened...
...story apartment buildings there. Desecration! fumed Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, arguing that the hills that "Hughdee's" stepdaughter, Jackie Kennedy, had loved as a child were also one of the nation's "great scenic resources." A resourceful Interior Department headed off the deal, and now Washington Investor C. Wyatt Dickerson, who recently bought the place for $650,000, plans to turn Merrywood into a pastoral development with "clusters" of $150,000 homes...
Bruggeman believes that playing with trains has a deep appeal for men: "The investor extends his childhood dreams by first buying an oil car, then adding a liquid gas car, then one for chemicals, and finally an automobile transporter." Many multicar families among Algeco's 6,000 investors have their names engraved on the sides of their railroad cars and often appear at the company's offices off the Champs Elysees to check on the location of their cars. Co-Presidents Bruggeman and Thomachot encourage this personal interest by inviting visiting investors to "drop by for a whisky...
...newest offshoots, Algeco is also offering investors parcels of freshly seeded forest land for $800. Though the investor must wait 30 years for his trees to grow up, Algeco's executives claim that each parcel by then should be worth more than $4,000−which, they point out, is enough to provide a fetching dowry for a daughter...