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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lengthening list of giant U.S. corporations, including Exxon, Gulf, Mobil, United Brands and Northrop, had previously admitted to making similar payoffs. The SEC's policy has been to require corporations in such cases to reveal who got their political payments and to agree not to make any more. Some have complied, others are resisting. Last week Ashland Oil Inc. argued that securities laws do not require public disclosure of the recipients of questionable payments that the company says it has made in Nigeria, Gabon, Libya and the Dominican Republic. Ashland has already supplied the names to the SEC...
...Dukakis may just get what's coming to him this time. Because the voters are not as dumb as they look. They are beginning to sec how that shell game works, and they know that Dukakis, rather than ending the game, is turning out to be just another inept player...
...those stars above lending strength to a performance by taking secondary roles now and then, as when Mazurok sings the small role of the sec retary of the Duma in Boris. During a rehearsal in New York, one singer be gan to chatter on stage. The others shooshed her. Stars at the Bolshoi...
Since the last vestiges of the fixed-commission system vanished by SEC order on May 1, a vicious rate-cutting war has erupted among brokers. On many trades big institutional investors (mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies, bank trust departments) are paying commissions 20% to 60% lower than those charged in April. Rate cutting on that scale, if continued, could force some weaker brokerages into bankruptcy or emergency mergers with stronger investment houses...
Right Price. A less controversial reform went into effect last week, when the SEC-suggested Consolidated Tape network began operation. The tape carries quotations for all 2,000 issues traded on the New York Stock Exchange, but in addition to prices on the Big Board itself, it records prices for the same stocks in six other markets. For each trade effected off the Big Board, the stock symbol is followed on the tape by an ampersand and a letter for the market involved: M for the Midwest Stock Exchange, P for the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange...