Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things that has to come out of this is over the next year or two, we'll start learning [what activities should be allowed]," said Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Bernard N. Fields, who spoke out against the original document because of its negative tone...
...like everyone I know is going to law school. There are plenty of other options. Some of the people at the "Reunion at the Union" a few Sundays ago were talking Shearson Lehman and Goldman Sachs. And some of them don't even act guilty...
...aware of how fast the end came last month for Drexel Burnham Lambert, wags at the brokerage firm of Shearson Lehman Hutton are in pretty grim humor these days. The latest joke making the rounds of the troubled American Express subsidiary: "What's the difference between Shearson and Drexel?" Answer: "About three months...
Lured by the seemingly inexhaustible demand for junk-bond financing, Drexel's Wall Street rivals rushed into the profitable business. The newcomers included such prominent firms as Goldman Sachs, First Boston, Merrill Lynch and Shearson Lehman Hutton. While Drexel's grip on the market gradually slipped, in 1985 it controlled more than half of the new issues. "Drexel is like a god," Michael Boylan, president of the publishing firm Macfadden Holdings, declared in a magazine article that a Drexel executive proudly framed. "They are awesome. You hate to do business against them...
Drexel's outcast employees have company in their misery. The firm's crack-up comes amid a flurry of reversals for the highflyers who symbolized the boom time. Last month Peter Cohen stepped down as chairman of Shearson Lehman Hutton, the firm he had built into a Wall Street giant that ranked second only to Merrill Lynch. Like so much that flourished during the hothouse decade, Shearson simply grew too fast. Beset by falling revenues, failing deals and internal disputes, Cohen was forced out by James Robinson III, the chairman of American Express, Shearson's parent company...