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...Europe and the U.S. are marketing a new generation of micro-power plants small enough to fit in your basement. Not only do they generate electricity, but their excess heat warms the house. These new-age power plants are based on tiny engines and produce electricity less expensively than multibillion-dollar coal and nuclear plants...
These elite institutions minimize their role, saying they are shocked by the controversy and only want to discover the truth. "Buyers, especially major museums, have a moral responsibility to return anything taken by the Nazis," argues Thomas Hoving, the former director of the Metropolitan. "Art dealing is a multibillion-dollar, unregulated global business where some people are more concerned with selecting the right frame than with where a picture comes from...
...Meanwhile, Asian finance officials may try to relieve some economic pressure in the region ? and sidestep IMF restrictions ? by establishing their own multibillion-dollar bailout fund. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) fund would cooperate with the IMF and would have strict borrowing requirements of its own, but would not be accountable to the IMF. The fund, which would supplement international loans, has been opposed by the U.S. ? which wants to keep the IMF in control of dousing the region?s fiscal brush fires. TIME asks whether the IMF is up to the job of bailing out the Tigers
...firm seeks to upset the applecart of a multibillion-dollar international telecommunications deal (Money Daily...
...sense, Case has spent his whole life preparing to build and run a multibillion-dollar business. His childhood on the island of Oahu was sprinkled with the fiscal adventures of a boy to the cash register born. With his older brother Dan (now 40 and CEO of Hambrecht & Quist, an investment firm that specializes in technology), Case started his first business before he had fully mastered a bicycle. The venture was a variation on a classic model: converting backyard lemons to lemonade. Next the brothers started Case Enterprises, which peddled everything from seeds to watches. Case Enterprises stumbled...