Word: firming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dobelle, the young, pretty mistress of U.S. protocol at the State Department, announced the signing in a firm full voice. Pens glided smoothly across the pages, and in a few minutes Carter looked up from the last signature and said, "Let's have a handshake." Applause rose again as the men came together and clasped in a three-way grip like a debating team that had just won the match...
Ford has vehemently denied all the charges, and the suit has had little visible support from the firm's other 335,400 stockholders. At the annual meeting last year, Cohn attempted to shout accusations at Ford, but was frequently booed by other shareholders, many of them present or former company employees...
...little-known firm bribed its way to big-time problems...
...business press as "a savvy marketer to the Third World," ISC is today in deep trouble. In the past two years, it has piled up losses totaling more than $50 million. In February, the American Stock Exchange suspended trading in ISC, after auditors found serious irregularities in the firm's financial records. The company's longtime chairman, J. Thomas Kenneally, 52, was ousted two weeks ago, and the few employees remaining in ISC's lavish skyscraper headquarters have been busy tagging the antique furniture for auction. Now company managers are bracing for another shock. They expect that...
...based Holly Sugar Corp. in 1967, the Government indicted Kenneally's partner in the scheme for violating stock-purchase margin requirements and sent him to jail. Kenneally was named as an unindicted coconspirator. ISC had acquired $1 million worth of Holly's stock through a Uruguayan brokerage firm to avoid the margin rules, and then dumped its shares, for a $1.6 million profit, after dropping the takeover...