Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With production heading higher, unemployment dropping and profits climbing, businessmen by all rights ought to be bullish. Quite the opposite: last week brought two new signs that they are still deeply worried. The stock market, that sometimes distorted mirror of investment hopes and fears, tumbled 22 points, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average, to a 34-month low of 753. And a McGraw-Hill poll of executives in eleven industrial countries found U.S. businessmen second from the bottom in confidence about the future. Only profit-pinched Belgian managers were more apprehensive...
...economy expanding. One reason: what Greenspan calls the "hurdle rates" for new investment have risen by two percentage points in the past decade. In other words, a company that once would have built a new plant or installed labor-saving machinery if it could expect, say, a 10% annual profit on investment, will not go ahead now unless it can foresee a 12% return...
...first 26 years, Fannie Mae was a Government agency. In 1968 Congress turned it into a private, profit-oriented company answerable primarily to its stockholders, both individuals and institutions. But the President was given the right to fire its directors "for cause," and HUD was granted some powers to limit Fannie Mae's borrowing. It raises billions of dollars a year in private markets and then buys mortgages from banks, savings and loan associations and other lenders, giving them money to invest in other mortgages. Currently, Fannie Mae holds about $34 billion worth of housing debt...
...paunchy 240 Ibs., Johansson, plays some tennis and a lot of golf and admits he is still looking for a post-boxing career. Says he: "I haven't done anything, really. I am like a used-car dealer; I stick my nose in everything I can make a profit...
...right now and will continue through April 26, featuring such artists as John Godfrey, Jennifer Morris and Jerd Stern. The show will screen video tapes by anyone who brings them in that night. You can also keep your eye open for video showings at Center Screen, a public, non-profit film screening organization...