Word: cash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beat around the bush, Dean. I've got the cash, you've got the leverage. $20 U.S. says I deserve a Kennedy School affiliation. And it that ain't enough, I'm willing to throw in volunteer time--organizing teas, attending cocktail parties. Why? Because I'm a desperate man. Because I'm a crazy man. Don't mess with...
...Jeffrey Wise was trying to tunnel out of his dorm room with his fingernails, while at the same time firing off his hand gun at random. The noise attracts a curious Kennnedy School dean, who happens to be followed by two rich Texans trying to gain prestige by disbursing cash. The four confront one another and, after a heated argument, strike a deal to set up a chain of "Harvard Grad School Diploma Shacks--instant while-u-wait" services in shopping malls throughout the country. Then they go off to have lunch. After they leave, a studious Harvard senior wanders...
...crucial question is how many raiders have weathered the market's tempests with enough cash to bankroll new deals. Several prominent players claim to have pulled out of stocks before the crash, and may still have sizable cash reserves. At Drexel Burnham Lambert, which last year financed more takeovers than any other Wall Street firm, Chief Executive Frederick Joseph contends that "there is still a lot of capital out there." If that is true, the takeover game could soon become as fast paced as it was in pre-crash days...
...market's trend last week was definitely up. The Dow began in the depths of gloom, sinking 156.83 points on Monday to record the second biggest point drop in history. The next day brought the beginning of the rally, for no apparent reason except that investors still had cash to invest after selling so furiously in previous sessions, and began to see blue-chip bargains among the battered stocks. The Dow rose 52.56 on Tuesday, .33 on Wednesday, a robust 91.51 on Thursday and 55.20 on Friday. Even the over-the-counter market, which was more devastated in the fall...
...Shearson Lehman Bros., had emphatically predicted a collapse exactly one week before Black Monday in an interview on Cable News Network. Her stock fund, the Sector Analysis Portfolio, reportedly gained 5% during the week of the crash because Garzarelli had moved the fund out of stocks and into cash and Treasury bills. Result: Garzarelli, who bases her prognostications on an elaborate computer model, now sends visible tremors through the market with her predictions, which remain bearish at the moment...