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...proportion of Harvard's portfolio invested in stocks reach a high of 75 per cent from a norm during the '70s of about 60 per cent. "What we're trying to do is say where is the better value? We don't see how an economy can continue to prosper with very high interest rates," Cabot says...
...largely determined by the success of a movie in regular theaters. The industry hopes that Warner Bros.' Superman II, the sequel of the fifth most popular picture ever made, will draw audiences back to theaters this summer. If the Man of Steel succeeds, Hollywood believes that it can prosper with movies that play both on the big screen and on the little tube...
...have repaid 75% of our bank loans, and while the future still looks tough, we will not give up. This is the thrill of our system, and it upsets me to hear self-interest groups, including the aged, fighting for increased benefits at the expense of the workers. To prosper we must labor harder and sacrifice for the good...
Ruff (How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years) predicted the destruction of the dollar: "We will look back on 20% inflation with nostalgia." Investment seminars have become regular events at vacation spots in Florida and California. This weekend some 1,600 people are expected to pay up to $445 each for a five-day marathon at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hilton...
Moreover, Yugoslavia did prosper during Tito's reign. And though Djilas does not credit Tito with these successes, his reasoning lacks credibility. In one paragraph he discounts the nation's economic achievements as compared with the Soviet bloc countries. Djilas says Tito's workmen's management system and all other economic programs did not help; instead, he attributes all of Yugoslavia's prosperity to its superior resources. And he doesn't even mention that Yugoslavia had 35 years of relative peace under Tito. Almost any other country would accept that kind of record...