Word: investors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong, tart and lemony," advised Mum. As it turned out, Frost, 34, never got a chance to try Karen's culinary skills. Just two days before they were to be married by Evangelist Billy Graham in a Manhattan ceremony, Karen slipped away to Chicago and married Las Vegas Investor Del Coleman, leaving Frost, whose engagement to Actress Diahann Carroll ended last year with her marrying a Las Vegas haberdasher, once again a frustrated fianc...
Mileti's use of investor syndicates to buy teams sets him apart from most owners in big-time sport. Even at a time of explosive growth in professional athletics, most front offices have remained a stamping ground for rich in dividuals or families. Mileti is a wheeler-dealer who must borrow before...
Computer Millionaire H. Ross Perot's decision in 1971 to take over the teetering brokerage firm of duPont, Glore Forgan & Co. was widely credited with averting a round of genuine investor panic on Wall Street. Among other things, it seemed that the firm's customers claimed that they owned about $15 million more in securities than could be found in duPont, Glore Forgan's vaults. Other brokers were hardly anxious for back-office carelessness on Wall Street to become any more of an issue than it already was-which was certain to happen if the company folded...
Though the announcement of Walston's demise was not a major catastrophe for the securities industry, it may serve to deepen investor mistrust of the stock market and make it harder for other brokerages to sell the industry's future to bright young recruits. Moreover, some securities men fear that a Walston disappearance may be merely the first in a new series of big shutdowns. "The combination of the duPont situation and the bad market has given everybody the jitters," says Richard Jenrette, chairman of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. "There will probably be more firms...
Between now and January, the ACSR will ask Harvard environmental experts to read over the Investor Responsibility Research Center's report on the AP&L plant and evaluate the plant's environmental impact...