Word: quistes
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...dealing abound. Ko-Ko (Steve Mooradian), sentenced to die for flirting, has managed to get himself promoted to the top of the criminal justice system--Lord High Executioner. All other functions of state fall under the aegis of the corrupt, sneering Pooh-Bah (Kenneth Bamberger). The regal Mikado (Anton Quist) makes certain that the "punishment fit the crime"--that ludicrous laws decapitate luckless lovers. Fortunately, palmgreasing and artful seduction prevent anyone from getting hurt...
...indicted to see you all here tonight," quipped Pat McBaine, an executive vice president of Hambrecht & Quist, the San Francisco investment firm. His pun had a certain appropriateness. By way of a theme party, McBaine's company had invited some 600 members of the financial community to share in the unique feeling of being an illegal insider trader. Or almost. The guests were transported by boat to Alcatraz, the inactive island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. There, while 25 actors dressed as convicts and jail guards capered around them, the temporary inmates supped on roast quail with lime sauce...
...profits vanish and companies struggle, the venture-capital firms that helped fuel Silicon Valley's early growth have become stingier. Investment bankers who steer young companies toward the stock market are also cutting back. San Francisco's Hambrecht & Quist recently announced layoffs for 5% of its work force. After arranging initial public offerings for 66 companies, worth $2.2 billion in 1983, Hambrecht & Quist has managed only eight sales worth $96 million so far this year...
Hambrecht & Quist...
Today Hambrecht & Quist has a staff of 350 in five U.S. offices and one in London. That is big enough, insists Hambrecht: "I have no desire to be a Merrill Lynch or E.F. Hutton." Since Quist's death in 1982 at age 58, from a heart attack, Hambrecht has had to shoulder a greater burden...