Word: portfolios
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...Liberty Media through relentless wheeling and dealing into a virtual mutual fund of cable interests, including QVC, the Encore and Starz! movie networks, stakes in Discovery Communications, Court TV, game-show channel GSN, DMX Music, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and others. Yet Malone has been unable to add value to this portfolio; the stock has gone nowhere in years and, at around $10, represents a hefty discount to Liberty's assets. Liberty didn't respond to an interview request. But Malone is thought to be trying to pressure Murdoch into buying some of his cable assets in order to raise cash...
...Maybe it’s not possible to maintain these world-class portfolio managers in an academic setting,” Meyer said...
...Iraq may be a prime example of how President Bush's portfolio of "political capital" may have actually diminished, rather than grown, since he went to war some 20 months ago. By measure of boots on the ground, his coalition was narrow to begin with, but today it is smaller than when the war began, following the departure of troops from a number of European and Latin American countries, and plans for others to leave in the next four months. European allies who backed the war despite overwhelming domestic opposition suffered a major credibility blow when the weapons of mass...
Students and professors agree that it is unconscionable for Harvard’s Management Company to invest in these companies. Now is the time for students and endowment managers to demonstrate Harvard’s well-established leadership on human rights issues by demanding the disclosure of every portfolio company active in Sudan...
...said that Blackwill told him that “he decided to stay in the government because the President appealed to him for help. He wound up handling the highly difficult portfolio for Iraq on the National Security Council...