Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read in college but didn't. This is my spiritual summer." Her current fave: A Course in Miracles, a spiritual text that offers positive-thinking lessons for life. Her boyfriend, Stedman Graham, a former basketball player, is now based in North Carolina as vice president of a public relations firm; they usually see each other every couple of weeks...
...blocks in the Japanese capital. Inside, employees toil elbow to elbow in open work areas illuminated by fluorescent lights, and the air is heavy with cigarette smoke. Yet the modest facade masks the nerve center of a powerful financial empire: Nomura Securities, the largest, richest and most profitable securities firm on earth...
Nomura took a giant step toward realizing that goal last week, stunning Wall Street with a move to become a major player in the U.S. mergers-and- acquisitions game. The company said it was paying $100 million for 20% of the hot, new Manhattan investment firm started six months ago by Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph Perella, the Wall Street wizards who built First Boston's merger department into one of the best in the business and then left to strike out on their...
Wasserstein, Perella has already managed about $19 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions, including the $6.6 billion purchase of Federated Department Stores by Canadian Developer Robert Campeau. Teaming up with the U.S. firm, Nomura can gain expertise in merger making and help its Japanese clients acquire U.S. companies. For Wasserstein, Perella the deal provides both an infusion of capital and global connections. Says Perella: "No other single alliance could give us the comprehensive reach that the Japanese connection we have with Nomura could...
Behind the firm's drive to become the world's unrivaled financial heavyweight is Yoshihisa Tabuchi, 56, a forceful and intensely competitive 32- year Nomura veteran, who became its president in 1985. A former salesman and retail-branch manager, Tabuchi believes Nomura's aggressive style of selling and dealmaking can work in any market, no matter what the language or currency. Nomura, after all, has a big advantage over foreign rivals -- and Tabuchi knows it. Says he: "Japan has simply become the world's source of capital...