Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone from Peter Lynch to your barber will tell you that before you invest in a company's stock, you should make sure it has great management. The best managers are agile enough to steer through trouble and exploit new opportunities. That's how Jack Welch at General Electric became a star and why GE perpetually trades at a higher multiple of earnings than the average stock. Welch is proven. You can buy his stock and throw it in a drawer. Ditto Charles Knight at Emerson Electric and Lawrence Bossidy at AlliedSignal...
...dose of high culture needn't mean a trek to the Wang Center or Symphony Hall. The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, directed by Adam Grossman, is opening its 1998-99 season tonight with a concert of music by Moussorgsky, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Barber--the exciting "Night on Bald Mountain" is one of the featured works. 3 p.m. Agassiz School, corner of Oxford and Sacramento St., 547-9477, FREE...
...jungle of Wall Street, the male warrior doesn't reign supreme. Women are simply better investors than men, according to a new study by Brad M. Barber and Terrance Odean of the University of California at Davis. The reason is no big surprise: overconfident males take too many risks, trade too often and earn 1.4% lower annual returns than females...
Rachel E. Barber '99 and Justin D. Lerer '99 will server on the FAS Libarary Committee, while Vladmir A. Kleyman '02 Steven J. Mitby '99 and Jimmy Zha '02 will server on the Commission of Inquiry...
...Harry's first shave. It didn't help that what Harry had shaved was his head. It seems the young Prince enlisted some chums to help him achieve the close-cropped hairstyle of his soccer hero Michael Owen. Alas, his classmates proved to be sub-par stylists, and a barber near Harry's boarding school was called upon to salvage the operation, relieving the Prince of his remaining mane. When the Mirror learned of the botched job, it ran a computer-generated picture of what Harry might look like hairless. Objecting to an "intrusion" into his sons' lives, Charles expressed...