Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't supposed to end like this. Coleman and two smaller deals were part of Dunlap's plan to build and to prove he was more than a one-trick pony. But the circus left town without him, and he perhaps learned that restructuring a company and restructuring consumer demand are two very different tasks...
...might have been tempted last Monday to buy stocks of companies that make semiconductors or computer chips, only to discover, once they got them home, that the stuff was priced to move because it was broken. A number of semiconductor companies announced later last week that because of weak demand from Asian customers, they would earn less than expected. So their stocks went further south...
...government and international corporations that have continued their oil operations for failing to speak strongly against human-rights abuses. "The U.S. has always made vague statements about wanting democracy in Nigeria," she says. "But what does that mean? At the very least, the U.S. government has to demand the release of the political prisoners." Foremost among them, of course, is her father. She hasn't seen him in nearly four years, but she hopes that when he is released he will be installed as President. A wealthy man who was criticized by some for being too cozy with business interests...
...been flinching at Klayman's scour-every-corner approach. Three weeks ago, he quashed a Klayman subpoena to New Yorker writer Mayer. Klayman was hoping to depose Mayer and obtain all her notes and source materials from the past six years, a give-me-every-word-you-ever-heard demand that sent alarms among journalists. Lamberth forbade the subpoena, saying the old material had no bearing on the heart of Klayman's lawsuit. "That's when Filegate began," is how Klayman explains it. "We wanted to see if she knew anything about Filegate...
...average manager's age still stands at a respectable 48, according to fund researcher Morningstar, but new technologies and new demand for investments have created a bull market for fund managers. And a deep resume isn't necessarily a requirement for the job. Grech, for instance, has been out of business school for two years, joining precocious stock pickers like his rising Fidelity colleague Erin Sullivan, also 28. While few shops actually give newbies a chance to run a fund as early as Fidelity, it's not too hard to find a fund at any firm that's watched over...