Word: pensioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urging of the front-line leaders, Nkomo and Mugabe adopted a face-saving compromise and rejoined the talks. They dropped their objections to guarantees of white citizenship and pension rights, leaving the land settlement as the only outstanding issue to be resolved. Carrington's assurances, backed by the promise of U.S. aid, removed that obstacle...
...Board, sanity began to return late Wednesday, when large institutions like insurance companies and pension funds moved into the market heavily to buy up stocks that other less cool-headed investors had been selling off at unrealistically low prices...
...rails." In the past decade, 7 million small investors have pulled their money out of Wall Street and spent it on real estate, gold or simply a new mink coat. Over half of today's market is dominated by professional investors representing pension funds, insurance companies or mutual funds. They have better financial backing and are far less likely to take a flyer than were their predecessors. As a result, the market is less fun but more stable...
Somehow, when stock market investors get panicky and start to sell at unusually low prices, large institutions like insurance companies and pension funds always move in to save the market--and pick up a few good bargains at the same time...
...ignores this scenario. In any case, in 1977 Helms' lawyers reached a deal with Attorney General Griffin Bell that allowed him (in exchange for a plea of nolo contendre) to escape with a suspended two-year jail term, a $2,000 fine paid by sympathetic colleagues, and his federal pension intact...