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Unlike most American executives, who are often criticized for trying to boost short-run profits at the expense of long-range investment, Herbert Kohler can afford to disregard the short-term bottom line. His family and relatives own or control 90% of the Kohler stock. While the typical U.S. company reinvests 60% of its earnings, Chairman Kohler claims to put 90% of his profits back into the firm...
...concern about the plan. Even within the Administration there were qualms. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who has consistently opposed committing U.S. troops abroad, expressed support for the decision. He also noted, however, that it was a "risky business" and stressed that any involvement would be "a very limited, short-term, specific kind of mission." In general, most lawmakers were willing to support the plan if the troops would be limited to overseeing a quick evacuation from Beirut, but there was strong resistance to any mission that might involve American forces in armed conflict...
...Country's Prime Concerns: I recognize that Mexico has short-term economic problems with difficult but not impossible solutions. We will have to make a great effort of national solidarity to attack inflation and to combat instability in the exchange market. At the same time we must continue attacking the structural problems at the root of Mexican society. It is not the first time that the government finds itself with problems of this nature. Of course, now they are of a larger magnitude. The country is also larger. But Mexico is now in a superior economic position because...
...just four years, the number of full-time students has increased eight-fold, and the school now offers short-term special training sessions in addition to normal degree-granting programs...
...Wall Street, the prospect of unchecked federal spending pushed short-term interest rates back up to early spring levels of 13% to 14%. This week the Treasury is slated to bring another $17 billion worth of bills, notes and bonds to market, and many finance men expect the sale to push interest rates toward record highs...