Word: expression
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hambrecht & Quist oversees seven venture-capital funds with total assets of more than $350 million. Clients range from institutional investors such as Yale University and American Express Co., which must chip in at least $1 million, to wealthy individuals, who put up $150,000 or more. The first fund, started in 1970 with $3.5 million, is worth more than $100 million...
...first half of 1983, Hambrecht & Quist had a hand in underwriting 26 stock issues worth $1.3 billion. Hambrecht is a director of eleven companies, including People Express, the discount airline, and NBI, which makes word processors...
Just as Frenchmen around the country were ringing in the new year, a bomb ripped through a first-class carriage on a Marseilles-Paris express train, killing three passengers and wounding more than a dozen. Then, only 16 minutes later and 120 miles to the south, in Marseilles's St. Charles railway station, another tremendous explosion rocked the luggage office, shattering windows, carving out a crater three feet wide, and leaving two dead and 34 injured. Together with two recent explosions in fashionable Parisian restaurants, both blasts were apparently designed to protest the French role in the Middle East...
...Smith would still be a pretty good choice for an American Express "Do you know me?" television commercial. Only last month, an NBC news broadcast referred to "General Motors Chairman Roger Miller." But inside GM, Smith is proving to be the most forceful chairman in a quarter-century. In the year before he took over, the company lost $762 million. Smith dramatically cut costs and raised cash by closing four plants and arranging for the future sale of the GM building in New York City for at least $500 million. He has kept costs low by consolidating and modernizing operations...
...corner of the world. A man in Alabama made headlines last spring when he tried to set himself on fire to protest unemployment in America. Others have been more concerted in their protest, organizing massive marches on New York or Washington, circulating petitions, writing to Congressmen, trying, somehow, to express their fear, their anger...