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...BARKER Oxford, Ohio...
...Spare Time. More than 100,000 readers have broken open this fortune cookie, and it is currently being snapped up at the rate of 10,000 copies a week. To back up its brilliant come-on title, the book offers would-be spare-time millionaires a sophisticated circus barker's spiel plus evangelistic free-enterprise fervor, shovelfuls of down-to-earth business details plus the bargaining excitement of a Turkish bazaar, a fictional cast of heroes, villains and gulls-and even a bit of suspense. If a million dollars is not forthcoming in the author's promised...
Many investors believe that splits bring higher prices, but this is not necessarily so. To push up the price the company must also raise the dividend. After a two-year study, C. Austin Barker reported in the Harvard Business Review that 75 companies that split their stock and raised the dividend quickly gained 18% in price over and above the rise in the market, held the gain six months later. But a group of 13 companies that split their stock without raising dividends temporarily gained only 5% in price, dropped back 8% below the market level...
...BARKER...
Senator Dodd displays the eloquent talents of a circus barker or a random rabble rouser-and on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and to applause. He defines flexibility as compromise, then defines flexibility as "not only without virtue," but as a vice. Not since the Spanish Inquisition has compromise been so perniciously attacked...