Word: bros
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Will the 1985 rally continue? As always, Wall Street opinion is divided. Says Peter Furniss, a senior vice president at Shearson Lehman Bros.: "This is like a frat party. We're having fun now, but soon somebody is going to call the cops, and the party will be over." Furniss predicts that the Dow may retreat to 1245 before making another bullish move. Richard McCabe, market- analysis manager for Merrill Lynch, disagrees, forecasting that the Dow will hit 1300 this month. McCabe believes that several stock groups are still bargains. Among them: companies in the paper, chemical and aluminum industries...
...some 40 million "instant-win" lottery tickets to find out if they have hit the jackpot. But whether they jump for joy or toss away another losing ticket in disgust, the national love of lotteries has made big winners of two Atlanta-based companies, Scientific Games and Dittler Bros. They are the undisputed champions of instant-win games, one of the most popular forms of legalized gambling...
...firms, which in 1984 produced 1.5 billion tickets for games in eleven states, control 70% of the instant-win lottery business in the U.S. Scientific Games' lottery revenues rocketed from $100,000 in 1973 to $30 million in 1983. Dittler Bros., a wholly owned subsidiary of Southam, a Canadian newspaper group, does not publicly report sales or earnings...
PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION: PURPLE RAIN (Warner Bros.). Maybe the greatest original sound-track score since rock came to movies...
...Hennessy two weeks ago flew an additional 24,000 bottles of its prestige brand Dom Pérignon (retail price: about $40) to New York City. "Business has always been good, but lately it is exploding," says Gary Heck, chairman of California's F. Korbel & Bros., an industry leader. "Americans are all buying bubbles...