Word: scudder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students, who said Stone has not answered their telephone calls or letters, visited the investment counseling firm of Scudder, Stevens and Clark, whose Board of Directors includes Stone, and the North American Management Corporation, which is partly owned by Stone's brother, David B. Stone...
SASC leaders said Stone's membership in the Corporation and his position on the board of the investment firm create a conflict of interest when the Harvard body considers divestment issues. Because Scudder, Stevens and Clark has investments in companies that do business with South Africa the students said Stone could not impartially decide whether Harvard should divest...
Employees at the Landmark building on Federal Street, where Scudder, Stevens and Clark has one of its Boston offices, told the students they could not contact Robert Stone and suggested that the protesters write to him at his office in New York City. They said Stone does not deal directly with the company's Boston office because he is a director of its New York-based international division...
...handle. Says Barton Biggs, a global strategist for Morgan Stanley: "Lynch is still the most consistent mutual-fund manager in the country, even if he does not outperform the market every time. None of us are supermen in a prolonged bear market." Agrees Anthony Thatcher, a portfolio manager at Scudder Stevens & Clark: "Lynch's reputation, though somewhat tarnished, is not obliterated...
Unfortunately, this unremarkable standard of acting holds throughout Maurice. To be sure, Graves makes his lower-class character appealing, but he cannot make Scudder or his love affair with Maurice very believeable. And although Wilby does manage to convey some of Maurice's more subtle changes over the film's five-year span, he and the other members of the cast never lose their stifling self-conciousness...