Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those institutions will be pressed to the financial wall. Many, indeed, are already there. In general, banking profitability has been deteriorating for the past 15 years, and an estimated 25% of the country's 14,000 banks are losing money this year. U.S. banks, says Paul Baastad, an analyst at the San Francisco brokerage of S.G. Warburg & Co., are under "tremendous pressure. The quality of their assets most likely will ( continue to show significant deterioration, as it has over the past decade...
Born in Budapest, Soros moved to Britain in 1947. He subsequently attended the London School of Economics. In 1956 he moved to the U.S. and worked for ten years as a broker and stock analyst. In 1969 Soros started the fund that became Quantum with only $250,000. Members of the Rothschild family and other rich Europeans soon kicked in an additional $6 million. Since then the fund has grown mostly through reinvested profits. Because Quantum is registered outside the U.S., Soros and a few members of his Manhattan-based management team are its only American investors...
...NATO countries meeting with Shultz in Brussels on Thursday seemed less than reassured. Leaving the session, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti admitted "there is fear of global denuclearization without adequate countermeasures," although his government made it plain that it supported the new approach. A French TV news analyst summed up a strong current of opinion in his country: "Zero option, yes. Double zero and triple zero, no." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, during her visit to Moscow three weeks ago, told Gorbachev that a "world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us." Canadian...
...with Goldthwait. But his zoned-out stage character wears better than Philips', both because it has more psychological resonance and because it functions organically as part of his comedy. Goldthwait, 24, who has appeared in the Police Academy films and in Burglar with Whoopi Goldberg, packs a whole analyst's couchful of anxiety, fear, anger and guilt into one sweating, simmering package: the comedian as psychotic. "I can legally kill anybody I want," he announces at one point. "I really don't think there's a court in the world that wouldn't say I was insane at the time...
...billion foreign debt had been rescheduled at interest rates nearly 40% lower than the banks had originally demanded, saving about $1 billion. Ongpin had also won approval for a novel method of turning some of the remaining interest into badly needed foreign investment. Said Betty Starkey, an analyst at Multinational Strategies, a Manhattan-based economic-consulting firm: "The Philippines has pulled off a coup...