Word: lamberts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FinancialWorld roster were such eminences as George Soros, 56, president of Manhattan's Soros Fund Management ($90 million to $100 million); Richard Dennis, 38, a partner in Chicago- based C&D Commodities ($80 million); and Junk Bond King Michael Milken, 40, senior executive vice president of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm (up to $80 million). Not far behind, at $65 million or so, was J. Morton Davis, 58, chairman and president of D.H. Blair, a Manhattan investment bank that specializes in stock offerings for health-care firms...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson called Greenspan's appointment an "excellent choice." In the U.S., where Greenspan is much better known, most economic thinkers and money managers hailed the Fed newcomer -- once they had regretted Volcker's departure. Said Frederick Joseph, chief executive officer of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm: "Volcker had credibility. Greenspan will have to grow into it." Agreed Alice Rivlin, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution and a fellow member of TIME's Board of Economists: "Volcker had the confidence of the world. That will be the hardest thing for Greenspan to build...
...claimed. And besides, they complained, arbitragers, who buy and sell stocks on rumors of takeovers, often troll the gray areas of law. That is why it was perhaps only natural that Boesky's profitable relationship with Martin Siegel, the former co-head of mergers and acquisitions at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., began with the sharing of mutually advantageous information. But before federal investigators stepped in, Siegel was peddling takeover tips to Boesky in exchange for briefcases filled with cash...
...hands on the greatest food-industry breakthrough since, well, sliced bread. Within two days of the FDA filing, P&G shares jumped 10%, to 93 5/8. P&G (1986 revenues: $15.4 billion) has "hit a grand-slam home run," says Hercules Segalas, an analyst for the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm. "This is going to be the single most important development in the history of the food industry...
...trader: Howard Rubin, the head of Merrill Lynch's trading desk for mortgage-backed securities. Rubin, who has been fired but not charged with any criminal wrongdoing, was a respected trader and is a Harvard Business School graduate. Said Stephen Joseph, a senior trader at Drexel Burnham Lambert: "It's really strange. He has a great reputation...