Outlook

III. THE OUTLOOK

No future utopias

So we like to see profits, and environmental benefits, when we invest.

A prototype for future tools

He's making plans.

There is scope for increasing the interest earnings.

Many happy returns, Mona.

These bonds have some future economic value.

from revenues our company has made in this region

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All of the things that will generate future value.

We should invest money in the baby for future gains.

I had to pay him back for the past, and to ensure my ties in the future.

But the carry trade has tended to produce positive returns.

Additional investments in capital goods offer very low returns.

In particular, it has benefited from their technical and practical expertise in order to deal with plant epidemics and protect livestock and the environment.

We should now devote the peace dividend to development efforts.

Putting it in the crassest possible terms, the investment reaps huge returns.

Was there an agreement about how the ad revenue was to be divided?

It will keep paying off.

Even your thoughts contained lines with perspectives into the future.

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It means something that you have to give future economic benefit for.

And this is less futuristic than it may sound.

And all an asset is, is something that has some future economic value.

So we like to see profits, plus positive social and environmental benefits, when we invest.

Yet the returns of the great sacrifices we have made remain low.

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We were fortunate, because in a way our building was future proofed.

Trade facilitation offers a development dividend for all countries.

Periodic audits of oil accounts also were to be carried out.

Surely a fair proportion of such a peace dividend could be diverted to development purposes.

And it's investments, not donations, not loans, but investments that have a dynamic return.

Any future commitments are conditional on keeping a majority of the committee in line.

And do we trust, do we blindly trust, any future government, a government we might have 50 years from now?

And certainly you yourself and what you do have given us a view of the future that we will embrace and be grateful for.

Returns of 20 on equity targets are a thing of the past.

Houlding wanted ownership to be within a small group of people, giving annual returns.

In 2011 it reported revenue of 1.2 trillion yen for the preceding year.

Maybe there's fewer accidents, so there's public health benefits.

It stressed the importance of monitoring this phenomenon and of preparing future strategies to combat it.

These are 2020 circa scenarios, but they're not as futuristic as it may sound.

A nation without a vision of what the future can be is bound to repeat past errors over and over again.