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...NV Energy’s fit with MidAmerica is obvious. Mr Buffett loves his regulated, steady, capital intensive infrastructure businesses. He acquired MidAmerica, based in Iowa, for $10bn in 1999....
...Railroad company BNSF, tool maker Iscar, Lubrizol, the MidAmerica power company and the miniature industrial conglomerate Marmon all produced record earnings, he said, contributing over $9bn to pre tax profits...
...For example, the after-sales market for the Corvette includes T-shirts, mailboxes, car covers, and Corvette-shaped cookies - a $30m business in 1998 for Midamerica Design, the company that provides these...
...However, the figures were flattered by the exclusion of a 55 per cent fall in profits at PacifiCorp, which Scottish Power agreed to sell to MidAmerica for $9.4bn in May....
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