Word: held
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...such as a documentary series on the Cold War, The Eagle and the Bear, done in collaboration with A&E. NBC is launching a 24-hour business-news channel for cable early next year, and has formed a home-video partnership with Columbia Pictures. Only Tisch at CBS has held back from such diversification. Since taking over the network in 1986, he has sold off CBS's record and publishing divisions, leaving the company with a hoard of cash and inviting rumors that he plans to sell the network. Tisch denies it; he has instead gone shopping for more local...
Volatility could be curbed with taxes on short-swing profits. We should impose a 50% tax on profits from the sale of securities held for less than one year. At the same time, capital gains on securities held for more than five years could be reduced from a maximum of 33% to 15%, possibly on a sliding scale. The effect of such a tax change would be to inhibit short-term trading activities of large institutional investors by making long-term holdings much more attractive economically...
...protect the taxpaying public and promote investment instead of speculation, Government regulators should sharply limit the amount of junk bonds and other risky investments held by institutions insured by federal and state agencies. In addition, the federal deposit insurance system should be revamped to ensure that it encourages prudent management at financial institutions. At the moment, regulators bail out mismanaged S and Ls and often turn them over to new owners who commit little or no capital of their own and who get a free ride to continue the institutions' speculative activity at no risk to themselves...
...unclear. Singh and his three colleagues have always been regarded as a group apart. They were abducted by an organization calling itself Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, which is not known to have engaged in any other kidnapings. Most of the remaining hostages are believed to be held by factions of the pro-Iranian Shi'ite extremist organization known as Hizballah (Party of God), which has some different goals. Singh's captors claimed that he was freed in an attempt to win U.S. support for the Palestinian uprising in Israel's occupied territories, for example, while Hizballah demands...
...game of a close election, the millions of votes and millions of dollars boil down to a dinky little figure: 270, the electoral college majority that takes its owner to the White House. The battle for that number is an uneven one. For a generation, Republicans have held a significant edge in electoral math. Even when Michael Dukakis was clearly ahead in the opinion polls two months ago, his base of probable electoral votes was no better than even with George Bush's. Today the Bush bulge, though marginal nationwide, translates into an intimidating electoral count approaching 270. This allows...