Word: barney
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Guernsey said he aims to pressure Congress to pass measures to increase federal spending on housing, such as a bill sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass...
...protesters demanded that Kennedy cosponsor HR 4990, a bill initiated by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) to authorize $15 million for new low-cost housing, but Kennedy refused. His press secretary, James Mahoney, said Kennedy supported a competing measure because he thought HR 4990 would leave too many decisions to the discretion of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
...Hanover Trust. Last week Weill's persistence paid off. Commercial Credit Group, the Baltimore-based consumer-finance company (assets: $4.4 billion) he now heads, agreed to take over Primerica, a Connecticut-based financial-services firm that has three times the assets of Weill's corporation and owns the Smith Barney brokerage firm...
...Credit stock to Primerica shareholders, marks a triumphant return to Wall Street for Weill, 55, who built the investment firm that has become Shearson Lehman Hutton. What gave Weill his opportunity was a strategic miscalculation by Primerica Chairman Gerald Tsai, 59, who paid a lofty $750 million for Smith Barney just a few months before last year's crash. The debt he incurred in buying the firm became burdensome when Smith Barney's brokerage business sagged after Black Monday. Weill, as head of the combined firm, intends to sell Primerica's mail-order businesses in plants and specialty foods. Then...
Although Vellucci said he has been endorsed by Washington politicians including Reps. Edward Markey and Barney Frank, aides to the two U.S. Senators from Massachusetts, Edward M. Kennedy '54 and John F. Kerry, said the senators have declined to support either candidate...