"The whole issue about whether this is a speculative business is waning, " said John Icke, chairman and chief executive of Shoplink in Boston, which says it makes more than 2, 300 deliveries a week, with an average order of $ 102.
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Tyrone Guthrie, the director, wrote, " A repertory theater should not indulge in the highly speculative business of producing new work, " adding that a national theater, like a national picture gallery, " must keep a selection of great masterpieces constantly in view ."
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After discovering that 25.8 billion RMB allocated for the purchase of grain over six years had gone missing, he launched an investigation which concluding that at least 10 billion RMB had been instead used to construct hotels and luxury apartments, and on speculative business investments.
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"You don't have to be an Einstein to realize that if you buy a piece of property for $ 1, 000 and virtually by a change in the zoning you can raise its worth to $ 10, 000, you've developed a new speculative business ."
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That is the high price the local business community has to pay for what they did during the years of bubble economy when the reckless pursuit of profits through highly speculative business activities-- stock trading and real-estate investment-- made most people unaware of potential deadly pitfalls and the possibility of a sudden reversal of fortune.
