Word: moneymen
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While Akira Kurosawa was waiting around for international moneymen to cough up the money for his ultimate production--an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear--he sketched and painted scenes, a practice called "storyboarding." Though Kurosawa's eyesight is failing, he still managed to create dramatically posed illustrations that assault the eyes like a rabid ronin...
...West to win the war; the shouts of Teddy Roosevelt's rambunctious kids; Truman's political cronies, with ample bourbon, bellowing their fealty; Nixon's house evangelists heaving and praying in the midst of Watergate. Conniving diplomats have come there, as well as big-time pols and heavy moneymen, all summoned for the payoff of a lunch or dinner at the very headwaters of U.S. history...
...broaden and bolster their U.S. operations, Japan's big securities houses have hired several of America's top moneymen. Last week Nikko, Japan's second- largest broker, scored a major coup. Stephen Axilrod, the Federal Reserve system's top staff official, said he is retiring to become vice chairman of Nikko's U.S. unit. Nikko is one of four Japanese firms bidding to become primary dealers in Treasury securities, which are bought and sold by the Federal Reserve as a way of controlling the U.S. money supply. But Axilrod stressed that he will do more than simply advise Nikko...
...after 160 intervening pages of pablum, Vigeland offers a wonderful description of hijinks at the Harvard Management Company, the University's downtown moneymen, and their star, $240,000-a-year trader Bing Sung. Vigeland humorously captures the irony of stock- and bond-traders shouting at each other, manning three telephones at once, pioneering new kinds of financial deals--all for the benefit of the world's stodgiest university...
...trading cases come and go like stock-market rallies, but never has such a high-level executive been accused of using privileged information for so much personal gain over so long a period of time. Wall Streeters think that Levine must have been trading tips with a group of moneymen and fear that his arrest may be the first installment in a spreading scandal, especially if he or his confidants name accomplices in exchange for clemency. Indeed, Government sources told TIME that several more insider-trading charges against high-profile individuals will be filed soon. Some brokers are talking nervously...