Word: richarde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moves came after two institutional investors, Keystone Group and Kemper Financial Services, said they will stop doing business with brokerages that use index arbitrage. At week's end the New York Stock Exchange said it will consider ways to tighten the rules governing program trading. Said Richard Grasso, the exchange president: "As a marketplace that has almost 47 million individual investors, we have got to be concerned about anything that might be harmful to those constituents...
...invasion of Western Europe, which is what most of NATO expenditures are designed to prevent, has become nearly inconceivable. "It may be time to abandon incrementalism for a leapfrog approach, to see if we can really make a basic change in our relationship," says former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke...
...lunch that day, all she could think about (and all Richard Cohen, the legal director of the center, could recall her talking about) was water. On the flight down, she was particularly struck by a line from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, the line, partly borrowed from the Bible, that said, "We will not be satisfied until 'justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.' " It occurred to her that water would be an ideal element for a hot climate, that its calm, soothing quality and quiet, constant sound would be perfect...
...RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON: THE RISE OF AN AMERICAN POLITICIAN...
...obese volumes by heavyweight authors on Richard Nixon are upon us this fall, each an installment of a trilogy. Promised for 1990 are two more Nixon books by other serious writers, columnist Tom Wicker and political scientist Herbert Parmet. Despite the wide shelf of literature by and about the 37th President, the urge to discover him anew remains strong. It is not only because Nixon made headlines and history for three decades or that he was the sole President ejected between elections. He also continues to fascinate because it is difficult to come to terms with a leader who debased...