Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mikhail Gorbachev has continued to hold out for either a neutral Germany or one belonging to both security alliances. Bush's grave concern is that the Soviets may promote unacceptable conditions. They might call for German unification without NATO membership or membership in NATO but modified to forbid the placement of any NATO nuclear weapons on German soil. The latter proposal could become a hot issue in the West German elections scheduled for December, offering a powerful campaign weapon to the opposition Social Democrats, whose calls for a nuclear- free country strike a resonant chord in both Germanys...
...discussion of investment oversight comes at a time when Harvard has increasingly made substantial investments into high-risk areas, which now make up more than 20 percent of the entire endowment. According to the 1988-89 Financial Report, the University now holds nearly $1 billion in "private placement investments," which include venture capital, leveraged buyouts and real estate...
...formed in 1972 to examine Harvard's holdings in publicly traded stocks, which at the time constituted almost 100 percent of the University's investment strategy. But now, the endowment's money managers have sunk more than $1 billion into the high-risk and high-yield realm of "private placement" investing that includes venture capital and leveraged buyouts. Although profitable, such deals have been recently questioned by Congressional panels and consumer advocates for their ethical and economic implications. But because these deals aren't covered by ACSR, they haven't been questioned at Harvard. Now it's time to start...
...Aeneas Group--This group of HMC-affiliated companies oversees much of Harvard's "private placement portfolio." It includes the risky, high-yield holdings of real estate, oil and gas, venture capital--in which a private investor provides funds for start-up or rapidly growing firms--and leveraged buy-outs, in which large amounts of capital are used to oust current management and take control of a targeted company...
...Abyssinian Baptist Church has led whitewashing expeditions through the streets of Harlem to cover up billboards promoting such products. In Chicago a mysterious crusader who calls himself Mandrake has been painting over similar billboards in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. Several billboard companies have responded by voluntarily limiting the placement of certain ads. Since January the Patrick Media Group of Scranton, Pa., has eliminated its ads for cigarettes and liquor near schools and churches in 15 major cities...