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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stock market rose over 100 points the last two weeks. Harvard investors reacted aggressively and capitalized on the bull market to make a tidy profit for the University, an official said yesterday...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Harvard Revamps Funds To Ride New Bull Market | 8/14/1984 | See Source »

...branded forever as an "unindicted coconspirator" is rich, healthy and remarkably respectable. Apart from his $119,000 annual pensions and $300,000 in Government-paid expenses, his last TV interview cost CBS $500,000, and his last move from New York to New Jersey netted him a real-estate profit of more than $1.5 million. Though his wife Pat is in frail health after a second stroke last fall, Nixon is quite fit and chipper. Using a new Lanier word processor, he is tapping out his fifth post-White House book, No More Viet Nams. Though there was speculation that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nixon: Never Look Back | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Many Wall Street analysts welcomed the transaction. Said Mark Rogers of Dean Witter Reynolds: "This deal will make almost everybody happy." That includes Murdoch, who stands to make a profit of around $37 million by selling his St. Regis stock to Champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: The End of the Paper Chase | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...Chairman Lee Iacocca, hired shortly after being fired as president of Ford, went to Washington with pleas for aid that in December 1979 netted Chrysler $1.5 billion in loan guarantees. The controversial bailout proved to be a good investment. Three weeks ago, Chrysler reported a record $802.9 million in profits for the second quarter of 1984, more than it had previously earned in any full year. Last summer the company paid back the remaining $813 million that it had borrowed with the aid of the guarantees, beating the scheduled repayment deadline by seven years. The Federal Government actually made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Uncle Lends a Hand | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

Following estimated losses totaling $46 million during the past two years, MTV posted a profit of $1.4 million for the first quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stocks: Playing the Rock Market | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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