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With his clipped cadences and precise, impatient manner, Seereeram talks like an accountant of the green-eyeshade era. But in his eight years as a merchant banker at Citibank Trinidad, he helped bring the island into the world of structured finance, which involved complex deals that aided Trinidadian businesses in minimizing their tax liabilities and hedging against swings in interest rates. "Citi had the reputation of being innovative, sailing close to the wind and dominating the capital market," says Richard Young, managing director of Scotiabank, a Canadian institution with a division in Trinidad. Seereeram rose to managing director at Citibank...
...accept a merchant's first asking price for more expensive items, Fowler suggests. Feel free to bargain, but be reasonable. You may be able to negotiate a $4,000 price down to $3,000, but don't expect to wind up paying $1,000. "Save the hard-core bargaining for the really pricey pieces," Riddle says. "If you see something that costs $50 and it really speaks to your heart, then just get it." New Orleans antiques dealers all know one another and will work together to ship items bought in their stores, Moss says, so you can consolidate shipping...
...Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors) and his two best-known theater pieces (Bash: Latterday Plays and The Shape of Things) are cunning investigations into the way people hurt people. Now, in his version of A.S. Byatt's Booker prizewinning novel, Possession: A Romance, he has ventured into Merchant-Ivory territory: that foreign country called the English past, where passion bursts from the corset of propriety and love is the most beautiful work two poets can create...
...been rejuvenated by its efforts to restructure the corporate sector, impose discipline on the stock market and weed out questionable characters. Malaysia has suddenly become the darling of financial analysts. "Laws and regulations are being applied impartially," enthuses P.K. Basu, who is chief Southeast Asian economist for the merchant bank Credit Suisse First Boston in Singapore. "Some previous transgressions are even being punished...
...Larry Merchant probably has it right. Tyson-Lewis may have been unacceptable to most places on the established landscape of professional boxing, but it is pure opportunity for an up-by-the-bootstraps place like Memphis. As Merchant so aptly concedes, "A big fight is good for boxing. Even if it's boring...