Word: lynch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...YORK--Former White House spokesman Larry Speakes quit as chief spokesman for Merrill Lynch & Co. yesterday, days after he created an uproar by admitting he twice changed President Reagan's quotes in relating them to the press...
Reeling from Oct. 19's plunge, Holmes a Court suffered a devastating blow four days later when Merrill Lynch canceled plans to raise $720 million for him by issuing low-interest securities. In the days before the crash, the Merrill Lynch debt issue seemed destined to give Holmes a Court the buying - power to finance his planned intercontinental behemoth. Even after the crash, the money might have helped him hang on to the investments he had already acquired. But without the financing, he was forced to meet obligations by selling off stocks at the worst possible moment, when they were...
Baldwin charged that the hearing was not conducted fairly. He claimed the hearing took place in an atmosphere of "lynch-mob hysteria." He also said the panel's non-voting chairman, Dean of the College Edward Shanahan could not be impartial because Shanahan's direct superior, Dartmouth President James O. Freedman, last week issued a statement condemning the incident...
...defense of the moneyed elite was what Alexis had in mind when he wrote his tome. The final clubs are wealthy, prejudicial associations with a long sexist and racist heritage. They are bastions of old-boy networking and prep-school traditionalism, with wealthy alumni now working at Merrill Lynch and the State Department who fund the clubs and their beautiful limited-access buildings. As Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says, "the final clubs are where Harvard students learn to discriminate...
While those facts, reported last week by the San Francisco Chronicle, were not denied, Lynch insisted that there was no connection between his promotion and Wallach's generous award. Lynch said he had not approved the fee in writing and had referred the matter in December to another judge. After the father of one of the girls objected to paying the lawyers 57% of the award (25% is normal in such cases), the second judge in 1982 reduced their fee to $322,000. The California state bar is reportedly investigating Wallach's firm for seeking the high payment. The office...