Word: putnams
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Many Wall Street watchers are worried that the lofty prices of some IPO shares could soon plummet. "I think we've got a bubble here," says Daniel Miller, managing director of the $20 billion Putnam group of mutual funds, based in Boston. "The first things thrown out in a bad market are the newer ipos." The risks only grow when mutual-fund managers--the institutional investors who are driving much of the stock boom--find themselves with little time to evaluate new issues. Nearly 40 new companies went public the week of Dec. 10 alone, as many as might have...
Thanks to readers like Davis, who are buying the book by the dozens to give to friends and showing up to hear Pipher, a Lincoln, Nebraska, clinical psychologist, speak, Reviving Ophelia has become a phenomenon. Originally rejected by 13 publishers, the hard-cover book was published in 1994 by Putnam. The book really took off, though, when the paperback came out last March, recently hitting No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, and Pipher's tours on the lecture circuit keep the pot boiling. Explains Linda Grey, president of Ballantine, the paperback's publisher: "Mary is able...
...next four institutions enrolled 168, 158, 129 and 124, respectively. National Achievement Scholars (a similar competition recognizing outstanding African-American students) included 57 at Harvard, with 23, 20, 19 and 18 at the next four institutions. Our undergraduates also continued to do well in competitions such as the Putnam mathematics contest and the Rhodes and Marshall programs...
...familiar from earlier Wilson spectacles, while others--fluffy sheep that slowly ascend into the heavens, where they become clouds--are new. Robustly conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, the opera's simple Midwestern melodies provide an ideal complement to the graceful stage pictures, while the cast, headed by soprano Ashley Putnam (St. Theresa I) and baritone Sanford Sylvan (St. Ignatius), projects Stein's words and Thomson's music with true joie de vivre...
...nice to have a feeling that what we do as scholars has practical applications," said Putnam...