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...most successful venture capital firms in California is Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers of San Francisco. This is neither an old wealthy family firm nor a subsidiary of a major corporation. The company is rather using the gilded reputation of past successes to raise large new pools of money for fresh investments. Started in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, one of the founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, and Tom Perkins, a former Hewlett-Packard executive, the company has seen its initial investment fund grow from $8 million in 1972 to almost $300 million today...
Even before the St Germain report, small businessmen across the U.S. were skeptical that the prime was really the best rate available. Snaps Robert Laughlin, a Portland, Ore., food-equipment distributor: "The prostituted prime is nothing but greediness on the part of large banks." Attorney Jackie Kleiner has filed suit against the First National Bank of Atlanta, alleging that it uses an artificial prime to discriminate among borrowers. Says Kleiner: "The prime rate is supposed to be the bank's cost of obtaining money, plus a small profit. But it turns out that the profits are obscene...
...Diana E. Kleiner, another new Mellon fellow and assistant professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts said yesterday she intends to teach a seminar on art patronage in ancient Rome, or on political propaganda in Greek and Roman...
...served in Congress, Ford managed to get back to Grand Rapids every week. He would hold open house in a trailer to greet all the voters who failed to come to Washington to see him. "He runs the best constituent service I have seen anywhere," says A. Robert Kleiner, Democratic co-chairman of Michigan's Fifth District. "After 25 years, there's almost nobody in the district he hasn't done a favor...
...taken a more conservative stand than the White House. As a representative of an auto-manufacturing state, he voted against using any of the highway trust funds to pay for mass transit. "If Jerry saw a hungry child, he would give the kid his lunch," says Democrat Kleiner. "But he can't see that voting against the school lunch program is depriving millions of kids of food...