Word: dows
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...more than $475,000 from Andreas, his company and members of his family. In exchange, Dole is believed to have helped pass tax subsidies for ethanol, a corn-based fuel, and to have championed the sugar-price support program that benefited ADM' s high-fructose corn syrup market. the Dow's best performance ever. Lamia Abu-Haidar
...additional windfall of $60 million to the College and the graduate schools, according to Jack R. Meyer, president of the private Harvard Management Company. These gains are substantial even given the sound American economy in which the stock market has gained more than 14 percent this year and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has surpassed 6,000 points. Harvard's investments, under the management of HMC, outpaced this strong investment market by 13.7 percent, Meyer noted...
These should be heady times for Fidelity Investments, the mutual-fund giant that manages $450 billion worth of other people's money--very probably including some of yours. The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor's 500 both hit record highs last week, confounding expectations that a serious stock-market correction was at hand. The flow of money into mutual funds this year is torrential, and has already set an annual record. But Fidelity, the biggest fund company of all, known for its arrogance and aggressiveness, is under unprecedented strain. Some of its biggest funds are lagging behind the benchmark...
Despite his shake-up, Johnson oversees a solid operation filled with top portfolio managers. And even as new stars such as Robert Stansky, who took over Magellan, hunker down to chase the Dow, Johnson is orchestrating a three-tiered expansion plan that he hopes will render the vicissitudes of the stock market less meaningful. Part of it involves boosting Fidelity's subsidiary businesses, which range from newspapers (Fidelity owns 117 of them) to limousines and software...
...same time that the heroine is drifting toward a bad end, Didion's narrator is working on a magazine profile of the one person who might be able to save her: State Department troubleshooter Treat Morrison. "This was a man who could pick up the telephone and affect the Dow, reach the Foreign Minister of any one of a dozen NATO countries, the Oval Office itself." Morrison jets to the unnamed island where Elena is waiting to be paid, and the two of them...fall in love. "This is a romance after all," Didion's narrator confesses. It doesn...