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...second popular caricature is "Wrap It Up" Raisa, the Soviet Lorelei Lee who, after admiring British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's diamond earrings on a 1984 trip to London, dropped into Cartier on New Bond Street to buy a pair ($1,780) for herself, paying with the American Express card. In Paris she asked Yves Saint Laurent for a bottle of his perfume Opium ($175 an ounce) and received it free. In London she canceled a visit to the tomb of Karl Marx for a chance to see the crown jewels. She owns four fur coats and wore three...
...when its markets began trading futures contracts based on Treasury bills and currencies, Chicago has produced an explosion of new financial instruments. Chicago's three major markets (the Board of Trade, Mercantile Exchange and Board Options Exchange) now trade futures and options based on everything from Eurodollars to municipal-bond indexes...
Despite her repulsion, Harriet saves Ben. She, not David, holds fast to her parental bond. But in the process of saving her child, Harriet is punished by a family that feels betrayed, and the domestic sanctuary soon disintegrates...
...Beverly Hills-based Milken, who built the junk-bond industry almost from scratch and amassed a personal fortune estimated at more than $500 million, is attracting plenty of attention these days -- much of it in the form of official probes. For 18 months, a federal grand jury in Manhattan has been investigating Milken and other executives of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm, reportedly on charges that they helped Ivan Boesky carry out his insider-trading schemes. Milken and his employer have denied any such wrongdoing...
...House subcommittee is pursuing a separate suspicion -- that Milken and other Drexel Burnham employees may have taken huge profits at the expense of the firm's customers. Congressional documents show that on several occasions partnerships involving Drexel Burnham employees bought up large stakes in the firm's new junk-bond issues, then sold them at a profit. At the same time, some of the firm's clients reportedly found that their access to the issues was sharply limited...