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Selena was born in the blue-collar factory town of Lake Jackson, just south of Houston. After her father was laid off by Dow Chemical, the family moved to Corpus Christi and plunged into the music business. "We went to Corpus Christi to put food on the table when I was 6-1/2," Selena said in the Time interview. "We would play for family weddings. When I was eight I recorded my first song in Spanish, a country song. When I was nine we started a Tex-Mex band." She stuck with it, spending much of her time...
...addition to his duties at Corning, Houghtonis a director of Dow Corning Corp., MetropolitanLife Insurance Company, J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.and Exxon Corp. He also serves as a trustee of theCorning Museum of Glass, the Pierpont MorganLibrary and the Metropolitan Museum...
...addition to his duties at Corn- ing, Houghton is a director of Dow CorningCorp., Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, J.P.Morgan & Co., Inc. and Exxon Corp. He also servesas a trustee of the Corning Museum of Glass, thePierpont Morgan Library and the MetropolitanMuseum...
While we've all been puttering around with our own portfolios, buying what Mario Gabelli likes, or last year's laggards in the Dow, we could have been sitting on a few shares of Berkshire Hathaway and turned $1,000 into $1 million. That's the return since 1969. I actually owned Berkshire for a stretch in the 1980s but sold it too soon. Buffett himself rarely sells too soon. A key element of his strategy is to buy companies at favorable prices and sit on them. It's the sitting part that Robert Hagstrom says most of us overlook...
Leeson started buying and selling the simplest kind of derivatives, futures pegged to the Nikkei 225, an index of the value of 225 Japanese stocks that is Japan's equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It was a straightforward process: in effect, Leeson placed open-ended bets on what would happen to billions of dollars worth of Japanese stocks and bonds. His wager was similar to what gamblers in Las Vegas betting on a football game call the over and under-meaning a bet on whether the final score of a football game will be above or below...