Word: vogel
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...This supposition that the entertainment or film industry is an antidote or goes contra to the economy is incorrect,” says Harold Vogel, who served 17 years as the senior entertainment analyst at Merrill Lynch and is current president of Vogel Capital Management. Vogel believes that the sustained success of the film industry during past economic recessions was largely based on historical circumstances that no longer apply...
...There’s a multiplier effect on anything,” Vogel says. “If you pave a road, there’s a multiplier effect. If you build a house, there’s a multiplier effect...But no one really knows to the last decimal what that multiplier...
...Certainly the moves the administration have made so far are not directly attacking the financial issues that affect American homeowners," says John Vogel, a finance professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. "We need to refinance million of homeowners into affordable mortgages, and if rates go up that makes that job just much harder...
...East German lawyer with a marked ability for negotiation, Wolfgang Vogel became known during the Cold War as the point person for anyone who wanted to cross the Berlin Wall--in either direction. Over three decades he helped more than 200,000 people leave East Germany, including American pilot Gary Powers, whose release he infamously arranged in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel. Though Vogel considered himself a humanitarian, his reputation was tarnished after the Cold War ended and he was convicted of blackmail. Upon appeal, he was cleared--and his benevolent reputation restored...
...including whether to seek a federal property buyout. In Oakville, where 193 of 203 homes and businesses were heavily damaged or destroyed, many of the 439 residents want FEMA to buy out the entire town. In a written statement to TIME, the agency's coordinating officer for Iowa, Bill Vogel said: "Much has been done. Much remains to be done. FEMA is in Iowa for the long haul to do everything within the agency?s power to help the state and its citizens recover...