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Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the University’s $35 billion endowment, made an offer late last week to take over a lumber company holding over 200,000 acres of forest in California—enough timberland to cover Cambridge 48 times over...
...offer places Harvard in a bidding war over the bankrupt Pacific Lumber Company. A deal for Pacific Lumber would deepen the University’s already extensive forestry holdings, which are valued in the billions of dollars...
...then fanned out to the suburbs. The comparison is not exact, of course, but it's compelling enough. The effects of China's suburbanization are just beginning to ripple across Chinese society and the global economy. It's easy to understand the persistent strength in commodity prices - steel, copper, lumber, oil - when you realize that in Emerald Riverside construction crews used more than three tons of steel in the houses and nearly a quarter of a ton of copper wiring. There are 35 housing developments either just finished or still under construction in New Songjiang alone, a town in which...
...jumbotron, on the boards, and amazingly, even on the ice itself. At least this makes it easy to keep track of where all the big plays happened.“I still can’t believe that guy got up after taking that shoulder check into the Lumber Liquidators sign,” you’d say. Doesn’t that have a nice ring to it? In case the prospect of watching hockey actually bores you, the public relations team has been working hard to keep you interested. Instead of just watching the zamboni clean...
...Mike Ditka. Randolph's school district has dwindled from nearly 1,000 students to fewer than 400. It's adopted a four-day week to save money and might switch to eight-man football. The town has lost its Ford, Chevy and Chrysler lots, all its implement dealers and lumber yards, its creamery, jewelry store and movie theater. "The big farmers took over, and it's killed small business," says Paul Loberg, who runs a welding shop off Main Street. "All they need downtown is coffee and beer. They can't buy that by the truckload...