Word: prospectuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Like mutual funds, IPOs have been an attractive market for investors -- if they can avoid getting burned. For instance, weeks before MathSoft sold its stock to the public for the first time, eager investors lined up to get a piece of the action. Lured by brokers' pitches and a prospectus that touted the computer-software producer's growth potential, customers quickly snapped up the company's 2.5 million shares at $13 each when the issue began trading in February. After a brief run-up to $21.50 on its first day of trading, MathSoft shares short-circuited, falling...
...Robertson knew of Reed's religious conversion; Robertson's cable show, The 700 Club, had done a piece on it. He also knew Reed's reputation as a conservative organizer. Reed wrote a memorandum on how the new group should be run. Nine months later, he was putting that prospectus into practice as Christian Coalition's executive director...
...license to enforce the law. They seek to increase the police's ability to protect the right of citizens. However, a police force which would have near. Orwellian power over individuals in the community. A government controlled police state would preserve freedom at the cost of freedom. Such a prospectus perhaps funk, but it is not satisfactory...
...complaints involved real business issues. In 1968 Perot cried vigorously about IBM's refusal to let him purchase equipment on credit, yet records show that he consistently refused to provide even limited financial data in order to prove he was creditworthy. Nonetheless, several months later, EDS filed a public prospectus that included reams of financial data. In March 1968, Perot wanted to buy IBM equipment that he was leasing, but he demanded that the deal be retroactive to the first of the month, which would save EDS three weeks' worth of rental payments, or $28,000. "When IBM refused, Perot...
...stories define the essential mission of a newsmagazine in the era of split- second global communications: to give you more -- more than you saw on television, heard on the radio or read in your local newspaper. Not just more facts, but more understanding. The 1992 version of TIME's prospectus might offer, as editor-in-chief Jason McManus puts it, "to meet the needs of busy men and women who already think of themselves as quite well informed...