Word: firm
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...contrary. Frankel was a washout as a money manager, twice failing his brokers exam. And as a trader with LaSalle Street Securities, a Chicago firm, he proved too timid for the job--a surgeon afraid of sharp instruments. "I used to call him in the morning and say, 'Marty, make the trade!'" recalls Ted Bitter, a former client of Frankel's. "I would call him back in the afternoon, and he wouldn't have done it." His own fund, the Frankel Fund, attracted a total of three investors and the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission when Frankel revealed...
...regulated insurance companies such as Franklin American, which mostly sold burial policies, are perfect targets for scam artists: they collect regular cash premiums that are supposed to be prudently invested and are paid out only as policies come due. Instead the premiums were invested in Liberty National, a trading firm Frankel set up and controlled...
...Harvard students, she said, comprise an unusually large portion of the pool, in large part because the firm targeted Harvard students more aggressively than those at other colleges...
Christina's offers a Cambridge original: Burnt Sugar ice cream, a flavor developed by a Lesley college professor who came here from Cambridge, England. Burnt sugar tastes just like the top of a creme brule. Its texture is firm, smooth and dense--just what an ice cream should be. Like some of the other flavors we tired, it would be just as tasty in the midst of a cold, icy Harvard winter. You do need to know, though, that burnt sugar is not overpoweringly sweet--in fact, it has a bitter edge...
...Christina's offers a Cambridge original: Burnt Sugar ice cream, a flavor developed by a Lesley college professor who came here from Cambridge, England. Burnt sugar tastes just like the top of a crme brule. Its texture is firm, smooth and dense--just what an ice cream should be. Like some of the other flavors we tired, it would be just as tasty in the midst of a cold, icy Harvard winter. You do need to know, though, that burnt sugar is not overpoweringly sweet--in fact, it has a bitter edge...