Word: loeb
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...lack of a permanent home for the show hasbeen a perennial problem for Citystep, which twoyears ago staged the production on the LoebMainstage after petitioning the studentHarvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) for one ofits four annual slots. At the time, Citystepofficials agreed not to request an HRDC slot atthe Loeb for at least five years, according to ZoeMulford '92, HRDC's coordinator of experimentaltheater...
...same time, Citystep petitioned theUniversity's standing committee on dramatics fortheir own time slot at the Loeb, which would notconflict with HRDC. Committee members said thatrequest was turned down because of a lack of spacein the theater, which is also home to theprofessional American Repertory Theater...
Cohen was determined to build a firm that would rival Merrill Lynch in size. In 1984 he orchestrated a $360 million merger between Shearson/American Express and Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. That move catapulted Shearson into the immensely profitable investment-banking business. But signs of stress began to appear in the wake of the 1987 stock-market crash, when Shearson paid nearly $1 billion to acquire E.F. Hutton. Dozens of top-notch Hutton brokers defected to other investment firms. At the same time, the firm suffered dwindling business from individual investors, on whom Shearson was still heavily dependent. Cohen, meanwhile...