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Cabot said that these moves enabled the University--which currently sports an endowment of about $2.5 billion, the largest in academic--to make some extra money, though he has not yet tabulated the exact figures...
Like a corporate Matterhorn, IBM casts a deep and daunting shadow across Western Europe's high technology. So powerful is IBM in Europe that it did more business there last year ($10.6 billion) than its nine largest rivals combined. But Big Blue's success has aroused European fears and suspicions. Nearly four years ago, the European Community brought the most ambitious antitrust suit in its 26-year history against the American firm. The key charge: IBM stifled competition by holding back technical information about its largest and most widely used family of computers, the System/370...
Last week's action is likely to tie IBM more closely than ever to Europe's computer industry. The company provides about 100,000 jobs there, and last year it paid more than $1 billion in taxes, making it one of Europe's ten largest taxpayers. In a London speech last May, Opel promised substantial new investments after the suit was resolved...
...foreigners who bought American bonds or other financial assets in the U.S. were subject to a 30% withholding tax on interest earned. The new legislation ends the withholding, making the investments tax-free to overseas buyers. Suddenly America has become the largest and possibly the most alluring tax haven in the world...
...would save them from the publisher by buying their firm. Last week Champion International, a rival forest-products giant, came forward to do precisely that. Champion agreed to pay about $1.8 billion in cash and stock for the company. If approved by federal regulators, the deal will create the largest paper producer (combined 1983 sales: $7.1 billion...