Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like watching your mother getting ravaged by New York thugs," said Greg Kieselmann, co-manager of institutional research at Morgan, Olmstead, Kennedy & Gardner, a Los Angeles brokerage firm. That rather vivid imagery was typical of the investment world's reaction last week after Financier Saul P. Steinberg zapped Walt Disney Productions with a market ploy that made him $32 million richer but may have left Disney much weaker. Steinberg, 44, had just pulled off the latest example of a spreading tactic called greenmail, Wall Street's version of blackmail...
...that it would not submit to any ruling on the matter. In 1973 France denied the court's jurisdiction when New Zealand and Australia charged that French nuclear tests in the Pacific violated international law. The Reagan Administration differed from past recalcitrants only in its timing. Says Richard Gardner, professor of international law at Columbia University: "I'm not sure there is any other case where a defendant country has pre-empted jurisdiction literally on the eve of the case...
Centrella said that he and fellow detectives Robert Sullivan, Bruce Cromwell and Richard Gardner used bank surveillance photographs to help nab the suspect. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was notified of the detectives' inquiry, Centrella added...
...made of the old wood trying to take us back to the past instead of leading us to the future." For others in the Hart constituency, merely finding a refuge from political monotony is sufficient reason for joining. "Nobody else impresses me at all," says Gordon Gardner, a copy editor from Savannah, Ga. "Mondale bores me to tears and Glenn is even more boring...
...short remarks by Kurt Vonnegut on Nuclear War and John Gardner's posthumous advice to young fiction writers remained in my thoughts after the ephemeral had been forgotten. A few facts from the "Index," which was designed to "reflect the shifting currents of fact below the surface of the news," also stayed with me; the number of students who scored "double 800's" on the SAT's in 1982-83 (only 4), the number of wars in 1983 (41), and the percentage of Americans who think the afterlife will be boring (5 percent...