Word: dime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tape of a CFTC meeting played at last week's hearing, Commissioner David G. Gartner blithely queried: "Do you think there's any possibility the Hunts are just having fun, just horsing around? Like playing Monopoly like you and I might do, or nickel-and-dime poker...
Wall Street disdains them as "penny" stocks, but some nervy investors are making big profits on bargain-basement high-flyers with names like Jade Petroleum and Oiltech. A share of Jade has jumped from 30? to $1.75 in six months, while Oiltech soared in two years from a dime to $2.50. These inflated pennies are coming from mile-high Denver, now the haven of the national over-the-counter market. In the past 15 months, more than 100 companies there have filed to go public or launched public equity offerings totaling an estimated $200 million...
...sightings. He had spent 170 days and logged 161,331 miles: 137,145 by plane, 20,305 by auto, 3,337 by boat, 384 on foot and 160 on bicycle. His odyssey cost $35,000 and put a strain on his marriage. "I would have sold him for a dime," says his wife Virginia, "when he went off to Alaska and left me for weeks with the kids...