Word: investors
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...many have gradually filtered back. During the past year Lotus, Microsoft, Tambrands and 24 other U.S. firms have opened offices, established subsidiaries or placed representatives in South Africa. "We get calls every day from companies that are thinking about going back in," reports William Moses, an analyst at the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington. Coca-Cola is said to be close to announcing a deal to set up manufacturing operations in the country...
...taxes to pay for health-care reform. And they remain too nervous about their jobs to increase their spending much. Gauges of consumer confidence have fallen steadily since April. "In some sense, I've got a greater feeling of security today," says Michael Segal, a Los Angeles real estate investor. "I've refinanced my home three times, and I feel more at ease with the purchases I make. However, there is an unanticipated something out there, a fear of the unknown. There should be even more security than there is, but it just isn't there...
With $10 million of its $6 billion endowment, Harvard University will become the largest investor in a $32 million plan for nationwide expansion by House of Blues, a music club in Harvard Square partly owned by actor Dan Aykroyd...
Harvard will be the lead investor in a bid by the House of Blues, an eight-month-old Harvard Square restaurant-club, to open for business in Los Angeles and New Orleans, a University investment official confirmed yesterday...
...House of Blues is multifaceted. Part live music revue, part restaurant, part retail clothing store, the club opened in November to rave reviews. Dan Ackroyd, who with John Belushi was one of the "Blues Brothers" in the film of the same name, is an investor in the club...