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Some cola purists beg to differ. Says Gay Mullins, a retired real estate investor from Seattle who founded the Old Cola Drinkers of America and helped lead the successful protest against the new Coke: "Corn syrup is like lead in my stomach. It doesn't give me the lift. It makes me sleepy." But industry analysts perceive no difference. Says Montgomery Securities' Emanuel Goldman: "Original and Coca-Cola Classic are one and the same thing...
...relentless rally was not limited to the blue-chip stocks of the Dow. The Investor's Daily index of more than 5,200 stocks traded on the New York and American exchanges and over the counter had risen almost 33% in 1985 by the end of last week. From such familiar favorites as General Electric and American Express to small, obscure companies like California-based IntelliCorp, which is developing artificial-intelligence programs for computers, the large majority of share prices went up. If investors picked stocks by throwing darts at the Wall Street Journal listings, they stood an excellent chance...
...have invited you to his tiny apartment and offered you one of his paintings for a few hundred dollars. He might even have confided that he desperately needed the money to pay the rent. If you stumped up the cash and took the painting home, you're one lucky investor. Works by Fernando Botero from that period are worth about $500,000 these days. "I sold my paintings myself to friends," Botero says. "They would come over after dinner. I was broke." Talk about a reversal of fortune. Botero is now one of the world's richest and most successful...
...Instead of a tired alley, [Palmer Street] will become a really terrific corridor,” said John DiGiovanni, a Square real estate maven whose company owns the Garage, and an investor in the Palmer Street project...
...Harvard, the chief disadvantage to external management could be decreased performance, because some top-tier external managers only permit each investor to invest a few million dollars. This means that Harvard would have to work with scores of different investors to manage its billions...