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...their paper profits vanished as quickly. Other investors got caught in a temporary market downdraft during the second half of 1983. Irrational enthusiasm pushed up the price of some high-technology stocks to 80 or more times their annual earnings, compared with about 16 times earnings for proven blue-chip growth companies like IBM. When reality caught up with greed, a number of fast-rising new issues fell to earth, and the profits of many backers fell with them...
Hambrecht & Quist oversees seven venture-capital funds with total assets of more than $350 million. Clients range from institutional investors such as Yale University and American Express Co., which must chip in at least $1 million, to wealthy individuals, who put up $150,000 or more. The first fund, started in 1970 with $3.5 million, is worth more than $100 million...
...what a string of hits. In 1957 Rock assisted in arranging the financing for Fairchild Semiconductor, one of the first companies to make the silicon chips that are the building blocks for modern computers. In 1960 Rock helped finance Teledyne, a California conglomerate that makes a range of products that include Water Piks and jet engines. Last year it had sales of $3 billion. In 1961, the year he co-founded the Davis & Rock venture capital firm, Rock put up $280,000 to help start Scientific Data Systems, a computer maker; in 1969 the company was sold for some...
Reagan's advisers admitted that Rumsfeld had never brought up Goodman with the Syrians, but only because Washington had not wanted the flyer to become a bargaining chip in negotiations on Lebanon. White House aides asserted that Reagan did not return Jackson's calls for fear of destroying the minister's credibility with the Syrians. If the President had talked to him, they said, Jackson might have carried the taint of an official emissary. During the Rose Garden ceremony, Jackson thanked Reagan for at least not impeding his mission...
...will not solve problems. However they may feel about the colonial era, it cannot be expunged from history. The positive legacies of the past must be emphasized, while new ideas are tested to deal with the problems of the present and future. A high priority will be to chip away at divisive tribal enmities. Finally, Africans must accept the essential requirement of political stability: the orderly, peaceful transfer of power in the best interest of the governed. Without that resolve, nationhood in Africa will too often be, as it has been in the past, a sad parody of itself...