Word: developing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...committee can take a good look at academic uses and develop strategies for the new Institute," Radcliffe spokesperson Mike Armini said...
Schroeder: The death tax is probably the single most poorly understood and inconsistently applied tax we've got in this country. It's really a tax on success, which I think is contrary to what the U.S. is all about. I mean, we want people to develop businesses, then pay income taxes as they go along and earn income. Then suddenly, at their death, after they've built this big successful company, Uncle Sam wants to take a piece of it. Family heirs often lose these business legacies because of the high taxes. And most don't do enough estate...
...companies that came into existence as parts suppliers in Zeppelin's heyday, and their motives sometimes seem more sentimental than business driven. Thus far, only one airship has been built, and another is under construction, with contracts to sell a total of five. Sponsors have invested $35 million to develop the ships, and to break even the company will need to sell about 20 of them at $7 million each to firms such as Switzerland's Skyship Cruise and Germany's Transatlantic Luftfahrt Gesellschaft...
...moved his family--Kaempfer and his wife have a daughter and son--permanently to London two years ago, after five years of fortnightly trips to Washington. "I can't imagine leaving here. It's wonderful, and there are great business opportunities," Kaempfer says. He's itching to develop some office projects in London. And he's starting to add megasize movie complexes to his malls--complete with all the latest embellishments, such as stadium seating and digital sound, which are relatively new to European filmgoers. Kaempfer reckons that discount designer duds aren't the only staples of the American lifestyle...
...join the family business, which her grandfather had founded: Artkraft Strauss, known for its innovative Times Square signs--and the giant ball it lowered each New Year's Eve. She hoped to help her father, who had suffered a heart attack shortly after inheriting the business, to develop the company so it could thrive in the coming century. She knew it wouldn't be easy: her dad was irascible, and the place was "crawling with relatives," not all of them productive. Fortunately, she was able turn to an old friend, "a super shrink who encouraged me to accept...