Word: investors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Private investors, as opposed to companies, are turning up all over the U.S., mostly in search of real estate deals-the traditional haven for nervous money from abroad. Canadians. Iranians, Arabs (sometimes masquerading as Iranians), Germans and Japanese are leading bidders. Kenji Osawa. a Japanese investor, has bought six of the eight hotels managed by Sheraton in Hawaii; Lehndorff Management, the U.S. arm of a Hamburg investment management firm, estimates that foreigners will buy more than $2 billion worth of U.S. real estate this year, with West German investors among the leading purchasers...
...agent, who photocopied the contents. This was all part of an unorthodox IRS investigation known as Project Haven, which was aimed at Caribbean financial high jinks. One of the alleged depositors, listed in the copied documents as having a $100,000 account, was a self-described retired investor, Jack Payner, of Cleveland. He was subsequently indicted on a charge of having falsely sworn on his 1972 tax return that he had no foreign bank account. Now U.S. District Judge John M. Manos of Cleveland has thrown out the evidence against Payner-and possibly the evidence against dozens of other defendants...
...investor may have to put up $1.8 million, because of legal requirements, though the two have not really looked into the legal aspects of forming a corporation, Campbell said...
...light of this evidence, Harvard Treasurer George Putnam's contention that Harvard abstained on the shareholder resolution because it believes G.E. is a "responsible investor" in South Africa is ludicrous...
...reception for black freshmen this September where he closed his eyes and, he says, "I could have sworn I was with a bunch of upper class white students." Doe says he has little faith in the University's ability to develop a socially responsible position as an investor. "How can the University clean up its act if America can't clean up its act?" he asks...