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Physician Richard Weiss listens to radio reports of the developing fiasco as he drives to work. Weiss pulls off the freeway and phones his broker with an % order to sell his entire portfolio. The broker ticks off plummeting quotes. "There's Disney going 78, 70, 68. We're making history here." Says Weiss: "We're doing it with my money." He loses...
...Broker Walter Burke pauses amid the plaintive calls from his customers. "Everyone's scared," he says. "They're bailing out." But he finds one consolation. "A fast death," he philosophizes, "is better than a slow...
...become Prime Minister, succeeding Yasuhiro Nakasone, 70, when he steps down later this month after five years in office. No, the speculation immediately centered on which of the three -- Party Secretary General Noboru Takeshita, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe or Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa -- will be the best power broker, dispensing promises among the various factions that make up the L.D.P. The winner needs a majority of the 445 L.D.P. members in the Diet. "I do not think there are any contentious issues dividing us," said Takeshita. "It will boil down to differences in style...
...nice start but it also turns out to be one of the very few moments of humor in the script. The rest of this solemn movie follows the next five years of Maurice's life as he transforms himself from a callow undergraduate into a cultivated city stock-broker, all the while guarding his secret from the Dean, the police and London society...
Liddy Dole is neither mother nor housekeeper. She is a power broker who happens to have a North Carolina accent, which undoubtedly will deepen as the campaign wears on and she fields policy questions about nuclear arms, budgets, trade balances, airline safety. Strategic issues will not be escaped as they were by Nancy Reagan, who once joked that she had planned to discuss nuclear disarmament with her husband but decided instead to clean out his sock drawer. Liddy Dole will be expected to know -- and she will...