Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreseeable future, the long-suffering Soviet consumer will have to continue paying for the inherent contradiction of Soviet society: the desire to be a military superpower while having the economy of a semiadvanced nation. Says Economist Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "The Soviets have the slimmest waistlines in the world. They can always tighten their belts another notch...
...many students, some name--any name--was better than a direction. "Any surprise takes a few days to adapt to, but I'm beginning to like it already," said Lewis S. Goldman...
...lack of trying, though. When a July 1983 report by Goldman, Sachs favored a $500 million-a-year stock-repurchase plan as a way of boosting the company's market price, the Petersen-dominated board of directors rejected the idea because it would have increased the Getty family's stake to about 53%. Indeed, the board took just the opposite tack, deciding in early October to issue new shares that would dilute Getty's influence...
...million of them holding fewer than 100 shares, A T & T is the most widely owned stock in the world. But the mood concerning A T & T among both market experts and amateurs has been jittery. Said Robert Rubin, a partner and trader at Wall Street's Goldman Sachs: "Most institutions are just as confused as individual shareholders." Early last week, A T & T fell by more than a dollar in a single day on the basis of one analyst's speculation that the phone company's dividend might go down for the first time...
...before, the firm had agreed to buy Topps Chewing Gum (fiscal 1983 sales: $69.7 million), makers of the famous baseball cards, for some $95 million. Last January Forstmann Little paid about $100 million for Beverage Management of Columbus, a bottler of Seven-Up and Royal Crown Cola. Said Emanuel Goldman, a leading beverage analyst with San Francisco-based Montgomery Securities: "They truly have a full-scale commitment to the U.S. soft-drink industry...