Word: investors
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...trash, entrepreneurs will find it. And in many instances they have. Processors are turning a profit by recycling high-value steel and aluminum cans and, in general, paper cartons and cardboard. A Shearson Lehman analysis concludes that recycling is now attracting "the attention of the solid waste industry investor." In two areas in particular, innovative ideas are cropping...
...investor's nightmare...
...would hope that business would be more experimental and more flexible," says Sidney Wertimer, recently retired professor of economics at Hamilton College and an early investor in Otisca. "Sure, we've made mistakes. I think probably somewhere along the line Henry Ford and Thomas Watson made a mistake...
...rest was all American. And the Commerce Department defines "foreign-owned" as "a U.S. business that is owned 10 percent or more by a foreign investor." By this absurd measure, companies with almost no foreign control are defined as "foreign-owned...
...outside investors, rather than regulators, who are applying the most pressure on corporate insiders. Increasingly, shareholders are turning to the courts. There are nearly 100 investor lawsuits pending against insiders, says James Newman, publisher of the Securities Class Action Alert newsletter, double the number of five years ago. Shareholders at Compaq Computer, for example, sued last year after insiders unloaded $16 million in stock just weeks before the company's stunning revelation of an inventory glut and exchange-rate problems. Compaq's stock dropped 27% on the news...