Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inside Fox's heart and mind, Sheen spent a couple of days talking with David Brown, a former Goldman Sachs trader who pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in 1986. "A lot of these guys on Wall Street consider themselves to be warriors," reports Sheen. "They say, 'I'm going off to war today,' and they're not kidding." Sheen had an easier time relating to his real-life dad in the role of his onscreen father, an airline mechanic who senses the hidden price of his son's success. Hannah had difficulty even liking her character. She plays...
...international economist) and Treasury Secretary Baker pondered alternatives. Greenspan's name topped their list. Second came Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead, 65, a well-known expert on international monetary matters; before joining the State Department he was a highly successful investment banker at the Manhattan-based firm of Goldman Sachs. Third on the list was Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Shultz and James Baker discreetly sounded out the two top choices about their availability...
Indeed, some Fed watchers think Greenspan may become more influential than Volcker has been, at least recently. Says Robert Hormats, a vice president of the Goldman Sachs investment firm and an economic adviser in four Administrations: "The markets have made a mistake if they think the White House may have more influence on the Fed. It will be the other way around." Hormats' reasoning: Volcker's commanding manner and banker's jargon may have been off-putting to Reagan. Greenspan, on the other hand, has a gift for rendering economic concepts in the kind of uncomplicated language beloved...
...crucial question is whether the recent uptick in interest rates signals the start of a long-term trend. On this issue economists are divided. Goldman Sachs Economist Robert Giordano declares that the recent run-up will prove short lived. He expects rates to fall below 8% by the end of the year. Kaufman, of Salomon Brothers, is characteristically pessimistic, predicting that long-term rates will rise by nearly a percentage point, to 9.5%, by the end of the year...
...Women's Hospital. After studying past contraceptive use by 283 childless women with tubal infertility and 3,833 new mothers, the researchers found that women who had used barrier contraceptives had 40% less risk of tubal infertility. The explanation, suggests one of the report's authors, Harvard Epidemiologist Marlene Goldman, is that these contraceptives prevent any germs carried in the semen from reaching the upper genital tract and causing pelvic inflammatory disease, the most common cause of tubal infertility. Concluded Willard Cates, of the Centers for Disease Control, in an accompanying editorial:"The ulimate educational message is that barrier methods...