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...this report in 1986, she cites her position as an “International Economist” with Goldman Sachs, a New York-based investment firm...
...Morita, a prominent political analyst. Already, LDP politicians and Tokyo bankers are circulating a list of 51 companies presumed likely to meet with peril under the plan?including retailer Mitsukoshi, video gamemaker Sega and trading outfit Nissho Iwai, plus a slew of construction, heavy machinery and real estate companies. Goldman Sachs estimates that if all 51 companies on the list were to close, Japan's unemployment rate would jump from 5.4% to 6.1%. And that tally doesn't include thousands of small and medium-sized businesses also likely to go belly-up. Indeed, bleaker estimates suggest that unemployment could spike...
...turn over a penny of the award. After four decades and thousands of lawsuits, Robert A. Levy of the CATO institute points out, no tobacco company has ever paid any court-awarded damages. Given that they win eight or nine of every ten individual litigations on average, according to Goldman Sachs tobacco analyst Marc Cohen, they have little cause for concern. If the Bullock decision signaled a real threat to Phillip Morris, we would expect investors, the most paranoid sentries of corporate danger, to sell off stock as quickly as possible. But although its share prices slipped about 10 percent...
...second guess individual decisions; attorneys need only show that populations of people would not have chosen to smoke with full disclosure of information. The ultimate test of this distinction will not come until the first appeals of this type are decided, but there is certainly potential for success. As Goldman Sachs tobacco analyst Marc Cohen points out when analyzing the legal threats of individual and collective lawsuits, “The real challenge, in our opinion, are the aggregate suits...
...kids get older, visual representation is more important, and we've found that virtual manipulatives in computer programs are really popular with middle-school kids because they don't feel like it's baby stuff," says Shelley Goldman, associate professor of math at Stanford University's School of Education. Researchers have found that in some cases good software can do a better job of explaining a complex math or science problem to a 10-year-old than a person can. The trick is finding the right software...