Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Merrill Lynch help disguise a failing insurance company to look healthy? The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether the firm made deals designed to dress up the books of Guarantee Security Life Insurance, a Jacksonville-based company that Florida regulators seized last August after it succumbed to losses on high-risk investments. Investigators say the company traded its junk bonds for as much as $300 million in government securities in short-term swaps with Merrill in 1985, '86 and '88. The temporary deals allowed Guarantee Security to portray itself as financially healthy to state regulators during year-end audits...
...that it contains no reference to any mention of Judge Thomas' private parts or sexual prowess. Why didn't you tell the FBI about that?" Having begun the week under fire for their sexism, the Senators ended the week accused of acting like a high-tech lynch mob. "I would have preferred an assassin's bullet," Thomas declared, to the ordeal they had reserved...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: Bank Rate Monitor, Merrill Lynch}]CAPTION: DEFYING GRAVITY
...work force, some firms have gingerly begun to hire again. Goldman, Sachs has added 44 new associates to work on mergers and other deals. The firm also opened a Frankfurt office for international deals. Declares Alain Lebec, a managing partner and co-director of mergers and acquisitions for Merrill Lynch: "Things are better across the board. Our clients are more interested in exploring acquisitions, and the quality of the work is more real and less speculative...
...They were about ready to lynch my co-director and me," said Crimson Key Society member Courtney L. Kubacki '92, who helped organize the event. "You could hear murmurings of 'bureaucracies,' and obscenities...