1.   As this century has advanced, so investment trusts have developed to embrace more direct investment in the shares of other companies.

2.   He pointed to a lag in technology as a factor against such direct investment.

3.   That direct investment is itself controversial.

4.   They became less willing to transfer capital to the most troubled borrowers by the conventional means of foreign direct investment.

5.   We are trying to drag them here soas to get direct investment and to get foreign capital without incurring foreign debt.

6.   Neither stock market allowed direct foreign investment.

7.   Where the TNCs are active in Third World direct investment, in the form of factory production, they naturally augment an industrial proletariat.

8.   The history of the TNC is, of course, bound up with the history of foreign direct investment.

9.   Direct investment in its own distribution and marketing allows Guinness to manage its brands, in the context of international brand strategies.