Word: ravenswood
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...investment bank's big customers who were allocated apparently underpriced shares. In Salon's case, the offering price was determined by auction beforehand, ideally capturing money that traditional IPOs leave on the table. Hambrecht has tried the "OpenIPO" Dutch format only once before, with a California vintner called Ravenswood Winery. Next is GreatFood.com. MORE...
Less than 24 hours before the whirring chain saws and chippers descended upon Kathleen Winebrenner's street in the leafy Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago, the desperate homeowner was buttonholing government officials, pleading for clemency. Her 30-year-old Norway maple did not deserve to die, she insisted. "I thought this can't be. Where's the Pope when you need him?" she said, staring forlornly at the sprawling branches framing her living-room window for the last time. "It had to be a mistake since it wasn't on the original list...
After the Ravenswood Aluminum Co. locked out members of the USW from a mill in West Virginia and hired nonunion workers to replace them, the AFL-CIO traced the company's ownership to Marc Rich. He is a former commodities speculator who fled the U.S., pursued by a flock of indictments, and rules interests throughout Europe. For almost two years, at the U.S. federation's request, unions in 20 countries harassed and disrupted Rich's activities until, in mid-1992, he ended the West Virginia lockout...
...earshot, some California vintners complain that Parker is unfair to their state's wines. That's a canard when you consider his consistent raves for Kistler Chards, say, or Ravenswood Zinfandels. Still, wine buyers in need of a different perspective may cotton to The New Connoisseurs' Handbook of California Wines (Knopf; $24) by Norman S. Roby and Charles E. Olken. Their judgments are more muted than Parker's, but they appraise some competent producers -- Stags' Leap Winery in Napa County, for instance -- that he ignores...
EAST PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, SUFFERS ONE OF THE HIGHEST homicide rates in the nation. As a result, teachers in the Ravenswood Elementary City School District often find themselves chipping in as much as $500 to help defray the funeral expenses of a student caught in the cross fire. But since minimum expenses for funerals tend to run two to three times as high, the district is facing a grim decision. Next week the school board will discuss whether to buy life insurance for its students in order to make sure that funerals are covered. Since most of the students...