Word: investors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part from patriotism, as he is doing in his well-known campaign to free American war prisoners in Viet Nam. "It was something I could do and something I ought to do," he told TIME'S Houston Bureau Chief Leo Janos. "There was a situation ripe for investor panic...
...they're looking at it from the viewpoint of corporate responsibility, they would approve all of them." Bookshester said. "If they're looking as an institutional investor, they might have some difficulty with 3 and 4, but from a business point of view alone, 1 and 2 seem good...
...February, William J. Casey, a tough-sounding Wall Street tax attorney and onetime Nixon speechwriter, not only knew all the angles but had personally played a few of the wider ones. Casey, 58, is a law partner of former G.O.P. Chairman Leonard Hall and describes himself as "an investor for venture capital." He frequently buys into little-known companies or products in hopes of hitting the jackpot. To judge by his self-estimated annual income of $250,000, he has come out on the winning side more often than...
...third suit charged that Casey helped to sell unregistered stock on the basis of over-optimistic information. The information was contained in a letter sent out on behalf of Advancement Devices Inc., of which Casey was once chairman, director, major shareholder and counsel. In the 1962 suit, an investor charged that he had bought the stock after reading the puffy letter; he sought $10,000 in damages, settled for $8,000. Last week Casey conceded that the letter had been "outrageous" but insisted that he had not seen it before it was mailed by the man whom he had selected...
Perhaps so, but a horse player could not truthfully agree. Because racetracks do not return,, all the money bet with them, but take out a sizable cut, the inveterate gambler's chances of long-term gain are almost nil-in sharp contrast to the stock investor. Since the 1929 crash, shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange have returned an average 9% a year in price appreciation and dividends...