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...efficient to let any competitive advantage inform decision-making in the free market - a position many economic libertarians continue to embrace today. What some consider to be America's first insider-trading scandal took place shortly after the nation's birth; a former Assistant Treasury Secretary named William Duer capitalized on his government connections to make bets on the country's debt. His investments eventually soured, however, and Duer's bankruptcy brought down much of New York's economy in 1792; he died a few years later in debtors' prison. (The charter members of the Buttonwood Group, the predecessor...
...those who are aghast at how much money their gardens can absorb, there is some consolation in thinking of it as an investment. "One thing this generation has discovered," says Rodger Duer, vice president of the mammoth Monrovia nurseries in California and Oregon, "is that a nice garden helps sell a house." Considerable seed money has been directed into landscaping, roughly $3 billion last year, $745 million more than the year before. Such expenditures, by some estimates, can boost the value of real estate by 7% to 15%. Young anglophiles hope that a wanton English garden with piles...
...Princeton, Stew Marr (seven) and John Duer (nine) blitzed Harvard's Peter Brooks and Gordon Black by 3-0 scores...
While Marr and Duer were giving Princeton a quick two-match bulge, undefeated Crimson sophomore Rick Sterne was taming Tom Gilbert's powerful backhand in the number three match...
...couple of sophomores Chris Mayer d John Duer, fill the bottom of the Tiger lineup, and they'll have their hands full trying to shake Harvard's Matt Hall and Gordon Black...