Word: lynch
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...chief legal precedent governing religious displays on public property comes from a 1984 Supreme Court case, Lynch v. Donnelly, which ruled that the city of Pawtucket, R.I. could retain a holiday display containing Christmas symbols because it included sufficient room for secular expression...
...problem here," he says of the Sleds' problems. "I just don't see it. We're treating it as vandalism. These are pranksters." For a couple of days the city deployed an unmarked car to watch the Sleds. Says Carpino: "Come on, this is 1988. Who's going to lynch who? This is the Midwest. This is nothing to excite anybody about...
NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE THEY'VE SEEN. Retail stock brokerages are suffering because small investors, a primary source of commissions, are staying out of the market. Nearly 16,000 securities-industry workers have lost their jobs, while profits have plunged at such firms as Merrill Lynch and Paine Webber. The largest investment houses have survived the down cycle, with one exception: E.F. Hutton, already suffering from a check-kiting scandal before the crash, nearly collapsed afterward and was absorbed last December by Shearson Lehman...
...Boesky's credibility, and Boesky has a clear motive to lie and fabricate." For its part, the SEC claims that it has substantiated its case with transaction records and testimony from Drexel employees, most notably Charles Thurnher, a senior vice president in the junk-bond department. Says Gary Lynch, the SEC enforcement chief: "We are determined to litigate this to a conclusion...
...buying the firm became burdensome when Smith Barney's brokerage business sagged after Black Monday. Weill, as head of the combined firm, intends to sell Primerica's mail-order businesses in plants and specialty foods. Then he aims to create a financial-supermarket firm comparable in size to Merrill Lynch...