Word: sec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent representatives to Las Vegas. They have standing accounts with Wall Street brokers, and do far more trading in bonds and securities than their domestic customers could possibly require. In fact, Americans dealing through the banks have been able to buy and sell on the stock exchanges, ignoring SEC requirements on margins, evading taxes on profits and indulging in forbidden insider trading...
...Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approves the management's ballot, the Nader group-called "Campaign to Make General Motors Responsible"-will probably begin a proxy fight, asking shareholders to mail ballots to Campaign GM instead of the General Motors management...
...Every year, General Motors receives several proposals from stockholders concerning corporation policies. After determining what resolutions they wish to include on the annual proxy statement-which is much like the annual Coop ballot-the SEC checks the list to see if any legitimate business proposals have been excluded...
...Antipodes since Snell and Fellow Aussie Ron Clarke. So far this season, he has won 14 out of 15 races, losing only the 600-yd. dash in the Los Angeles Times games. At that it took a virtual dead-heat world record performance (1 min. 8.7 sec.) by Martin McGrady and Lee Evans to defeat him. In the longer distances, Doubell has been unbeatable. In Albuquerque last month he ran 1,000 yds. in 2 min. 5.5 sec., shaving half a second from Snell's eight-year-old world indoor record. As usual he pooh-poohed the stopwatch...
...SEC is not at all sure that higher commission income would really be used to alleviate the snarl of paper and general disorder in the back offices of many brokerage houses. There is a feeling in the SEC that brokerage houses in recent years have advertised for business from small investors without gearing up to handle them. The regulators question whether the small investor should subsidize such inefficiency in a fixed-price industry. The situation is bound to make small investors wonder whether the Justice Department may not be right in arguing that fixed commission rates ought to be eliminated...