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...California's, and its population, at 25 million, is roughly the size of the Golden State's. Furthermore, 24% of the relatively small pool of Canadian assets is already owned by foreign investors. Americans alone own 45% of Canada's oil and gas industry and 29% of its manufacturing sector. Says Ted Zahavich, director of research for Investment Canada, a federal agency in Ottawa that fosters foreign investment: "The U.S. is attractive to Canadian investors because there are limited opportunities in Canada for the big players. They've outgrown the playpen...
Several administrators contacted yesterday said that diminished federal research funds and growing competition from the private sector for scholars were leading to higher faculty salaries nationwide...
...University of California at Berkeley, the rising demand in the private sector for experts in medicine, law, and engineering has spurred greater competition for faculty, according to Fritz Stern, Berkeley's principal budget analyst...
...rescue effort nonetheless is a revealing example of how a private developer, unfettered by the myriad regulations that bedevil local government, can execute projects with dispatch. "Donald Trump did a terrific job," said Koch last week. "We have many legal constraints on us not applicable to the private sector that often make it difficult to do things as efficiently as we would like...
...uses of old words are bubbling up in almost every sector of American business. Wall Streeters talk about fallen angels (out-of-favor stocks at bargain prices), shark repellants (strategies used by companies to ward off takeover attempts) and fill or kill (an order to a broker that must be canceled if it cannot be completely and immediately executed). Management experts speak of skunk costs (money that cannot be recouped when a project is aborted), tin cupping (when one corporate division begs for management support) and deadheading (bypassing a senior employee in order to promote someone more junior). Computer aficionados...