Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Together Fusco, Smith and MacDonald made up the Firing Line, one of the most potent lines in Crimson history. They entertained and delighted crowds with their fast skating and hard shots. They foiled opposing defenses with their smooth passes...
That kind of fast-as-light trading has made immediate information a vital concern. On his morning drive to his office in Manhattan's midtown General ! Motors Building, Howard Stein, chairman of the $35 billion Dreyfus group of mutual funds, stays in minute-by-minute touch with price moves of 72 selected stocks on a QuoTrex sideband FM receiver. The QuoTrex system uses the Security Industry Association's computerized data base, to which all U.S. exchanges report via the Intermarket Trading System...
...fast-growing industry that will undoubtedly reap a windfall from tax reform is the financial-advice business. "Congress has given us a supposedly simplified tax law," says Jean Hehn, a tax adviser in Port Washington, N.Y. "Well, there are so many ifs, buts and whens in it that it's going to bring our profession tremendous business for a long time." One sign of the trend: Shearson Lehman Bros. last week advised its clients to buy stock in H. & R. Block...
...ousted minister had apparently run afoul of the ruling House of Saud on several counts. By electing to pump Saudi oil as fast as he could at a time when there was already a plentiful world supply, Yamani sparked a price war that caused OPEC prices to plunge from some $30 per bbl. last December to less than $10 this spring. Yamani's goal was to flood the world with cheap oil and thereby drive high-cost producers in the U.S., Britain and elsewhere out of business. OPEC would then be free to raise prices once again...
...Three days after Enrile led the chanting anti-Aquino crowd, he was joined in his attacks by Vice President Salvador Laurel, who sided with Enrile against the President in a Cabinet dispute over when the next presidential election should be held. With Enrile headed toward open revolt and Laurel fast on his heels, nervous questions began to emerge about the future of Aquino's eight-month-old government. Is it coming apart at the seams? Or is the Philippines enjoying a feisty demonstration of democracy in action...