Word: sprees
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...Five years later, Roosevelt was involved in another racially charged incident, and in this one his behavior offered less to admire. On Aug. 13, 1906, a dozen or so gunmen went on a 10-minute shooting spree in the small town of Brownsville, Texas. They left a saloon bartender dead and a police officer seriously injured. Townspeople reported that the attackers were soldiers from the all-black 25th Infantry Regiment, who had been stationed just a few weeks earlier at nearby Fort Brown. Tensions between the soldiers and the white citizenry had been brewing since the day the troops arrived...
...Macquarie bought the Asian securities operations of ING Barings, giving it more muscle to market its key infrastructure funds to retail and institutional investors. "The ING assets gave them a footprint in Asia which they didn't have before," says BT's Chemello. Macquarie subsequently went on a shopping spree. It invested in a South Korean toll-bridge project in Incheon for $64.6 million in 2005. Last December it bought a 40% stake in Taiwan Broadband, a cable operator in Taiwan, for roughly $200 million. A few months ago Macquarie also listed its first Asian infrastructure fund, the Macquarie Korea...
...racing there and why the major international brands are racing there too." Indeed, 188 new hotels are under construction in China, says Ford, and 145 of them are four- or five-star offerings with more than 200 rooms. Even if some of these projects aren't completed, this building spree could bring as many as 30,000 new rooms to China at a cost of more than $8 billion...
...Since Ratan Tata became chairman in 1991, he has multiplied Tata group revenues seven times to an annual $21.7 billion. Since 2000, the group's market value has jumped 14 times to $39.9 billion. And over the past six years Tata has been on a $1.9 billion acquisition spree that has netted Britain's Tetley Tea, South Korea's Daewoo Commercial Vehicles, Singapore's NatSteel and New York's The Pierre hotel, among 14 others. "Nothing succeeds like success," says Sanjay Bhandarkar, managing director of N.M. Rothschild in India. "All credit goes to Ratan Tata. He clearly has a vision...
...Spain's phenomenal building spree is not merely froth. It is grounded in a number of demographic realities: Spain had its baby boom relatively late, from 1965 to 1975, says José Antonio Herce, chief economist of Grupo Analistas, a private consulting firm in Madrid. He attributes the flourishing real estate market in recent years in large part to that population joining the housing market. "We also discovered divorce, which has contributed to a big jump in the number of households," says Herce. "And we've seen the arrival in the last five years alone of some...