Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WOCESTER--In the end, the Cross was just too much to bear...
...retail conglomerate controlled by Washington's Haft family, dropped its $68-a- share bid for the Dayton-Hudson department-store chain when the target company's shares fell to $30. Hong Kong-based Jardine Strategic Holdings called off a $390 million bid to buy a 20% interest in Bear Stearns when shares of the Wall Street firm plummeted from $23 to $12. The crash ended TWA Chairman Carl Icahn's effort to take the airline private by offering to pay $45 apiece for shares that ended up dropping to $14 the day after the crash. Said he: "I'm sitting...
Some are schools which have made their names in college basketball--St. Bonaventure, Iona, St John's and Canisius. Others actually belong to small conferences that bear names like Great West and American Collegiate...
...stock market, no figures have been so celebrated -- and so scorned -- as the precocious young brokers and investment bankers reveling in million-dollar co-ops, BMWs and American Express Gold Cards. These are the yuppies, the generation of boastful baby boomers who had never before known a bear market. But last week's wild market gyrations, coming on top of recent layoffs on Wall Street, have left them breathless. "All of a sudden, people in my age group have come of age," says Ian Wiener, 26, a portfolio manager for Clemente Capital, a Manhattan money-management firm...
...Royal Dutch/ Shell Group, among other stocks. Last week Tompane sold out to Merrill Lynch for an undisclosed sum. Also merged out of existence was W. Damm M. Frank & Co., an American Stock Exchange specialist that traded in 30 Amex stocks before the crash. The firm was acquired by Bear, Stearns. That could be only the beginning. Says Samuel Liss, an analyst at Salomon: "We are going to see more specialist firms merging with better-capitalized parents...