Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enormous strength at home. It offers a full roster of investment services, including underwriting, money management and research. Nomura handles nearly 17% of all stock trades in Japan; its nearest rival, Daiwa Securities, has a 12% share of the market. Nomura claims an equally commanding slice of the bond market, 19%, vs. 12% for Daiwa. Nomura and Daiwa, along with Nikko Securities and Yamaichi Securities, are known in Japan as the Big Four. Says a Nomura director, with a mix of arrogance and pride: "It's not really the Big Four. It's Nomura and the Little Three...
...group of men and women crunch on praline, and instead of computer screens, they stare into oven windows. A thin figure in a tall toque waves a blade. "All the time be rocking the knife," he says with a Germanic accent to an intent group of onlookers. "Never slice almonds. Rock, rock...
Still, ya gotta give credit to a joint that, in a part of the country where they think you're supposed to slice hot dog rolls through the top, slices them the right way, through the side. Eating at Chicago Frank's is like being transported to what poet Carl Sandwich called "the City of the Big Buns." Or something like that...
Dukakis has forced Bush to rethink his Southern strategy. It's bad enough that Bush has to work for the Southern vote, but now he has to campaign in Texas--a state that he thought was going to be a piece of cake. Now, Bentsen has taken a large slice out of that cake...
...addition, the legislation would help women entrepreneurs win a bigger slice of the Government procurement pie. Of the $177 billion in prime federal contracts awarded to companies last year, firms owned by women won 1% of the business. The LaFalce bill would require federal agencies to set numerical goals for awarding contracts to women. Prime contractors would have to set similar goals in awarding work to subcontractors. But LaFalce's bill would have no effect on state government procurement, where conditions are also rough. Mildred Green, 55, founder of Accounting Data Systems of Caro, Mich. (1987 revenues: $2.5 million), recalls...