Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fund was founded in 1994 by John Meriwether, a former vice chairman of Salomon Brothers, and its partners included Nobel laureate economists Myron Scholes and Robert Merton, whose market models helped give Long Term Capital an aura of near infallibility. Until September, that is, when word leaked that the firm was in danger of suffering losses so catastrophic they could send the already troubled world financial system into a tailspin. A $3.6 billion rescue package was cobbled together by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a consortium of 14 U.S. and foreign lenders...
...appears to be tied up for two more years. The best I could deduce about his revenue impact is that it's on the order of $100 million a year. Clearly, Infinity's 161 radio stations and other assets (including radio jock Don Imus), with a total market value of about $19 billion, overwhelm Stern. Still, if my estimate is close, Stern has a hand in 5% of Infinity's $1.9 billion in annual revenue. That may not be "material" legally, but it's information an investor ought to be able to get. By the way, the prospectus neglects...
With 40 million americans suffering from some form of dyslexia, there's probably a market for a device that reads words aloud from a typewritten page. The Quicktionary Reading Pen from Seiko Instruments reads both words and their definitions and fits in your pocket, but it can handle only one word at a time and demands a deft hand for precise scanning. Experts applaud the concept but caution that, like other technologies that counter dyslexia, it's no cure. At $275, it's no bargain either...
...defer income into next year and accelerate deductions into this year. Ditto for making certain that you use, not lose, any money still in a flexible-spending account at work and for making charitable donations in the form of appreciated assets--stocks in most cases--to get a market-value deduction without anyone's paying tax on the capital gain. Let's skip to tips that are less well known or have special significance this year...
...since the system's construction in the 1950s, with suburbs pushing out farmland. Sugar farmers have spent millions meeting one of the nation's toughest water-quality standards. Rather than sparing sugar, the 1995 farm bill ended domestic acreage allotments, restricted low-risk loans and created a domestic free market in sugar. The industry has seen radical restructuring since the law passed. Today sugar prices in America are lower than anywhere else in the developed world. ROBERT H. BUKER JR. Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs U.S. Sugar Corp. Clewiston...