Word: investors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stock market might at any minute begin climbing to new highs or slumping to new lows. Last week the rattled and schizoid market seemed to be trying to do both. It was a nerve-testing five days of reversals and price swings that first stirred and then frustrated investor hopes for the market's much anticipated summertime rebound...
...Wall Street, investor jitters have sent the industry into a slide, dropping share prices of a number of big money-center banks, including Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank, to an average of only four times earnings. That is roughly the price-earnings ratio of the severely depressed oil drilling industry...
...portfolio to limit their work related to nuclear weapons. In the past, the Corporation had voted against similar resolutions, following the recommendations of the student-faculty-alumni Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR). Both groups argued that nuclear arms policy was the province of the government, not the private investor. But this year, the ACSR recommended approval of several of the largely symbolic anti-nuclear arms production resolutions. The Corporation went half the distance, abstaining on strong messages to three major companies...
...government-owned Pinellas Plant in St. Petersburg. Fla, which G.E. runs for a yearly fee of more than $2 million--company employees design, develop and produce neutron generators, testing devices and other "special electronic and mechanical components" for the U.S. nuclear weapons program, says the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) in a recent report on ethical questions related to G.E.'s nuclear work...
...from Hollywood, the home of the hot tub and the avocado salad, Mariska Hargitay, 18, this year's Miss Beverly Hills. Mariska is the offspring of Actress Jayne Mansfield, who died when her daughter was three years old, and Mickey Hargitay, a former body builder turned real estate investor. Following in her mother's footsteps, young Hargitay will enter U.C.L.A. next fall, where she will be a theater arts major. Her 36-24-36 frame may lack some of the oomph of her mother's famed 40-18-36 curves, but Mariska feels that maternal comparisons...