The innovation and investment appear to be paying off.

No matter how attractive a particular investment may appear in the short term, any unsavory conduct could hurt long-term performance.

At the same time, the plummeting crime rate made neighborhoods where there had been little or no investment for years appear more attractive.

In many places, the investment appears to have paid off.

In fact, the investment by Barclays appears to have been little more than a loan.

Little public investment appears to reach the Tamil lands.

At first, his investments appeared to be making money, the investor said.

Those investments appear to be ripe for a sale, according to people close to the company.

Yet foreign investment in the United States does appear to have suffered.

The average initial investment for manufacturing projects appears to be $40,000 to $70,000, still a large sum in Russia.