Word: smith
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...Harvard Associate Registrar Thurston Smith says that the Internet courses can not be used for credit in the undergraduate program. Credit is only given, he says, "for work done in class...
Weill's coup not only creates a global financial supermarket, but it will also impel a consolidation in which Wall Street investment companies will either get big or get run over. The merger unites Salomon, a power in bonds and a player in investment banking, with the Travelers-owned Smith Barney brokerage, which is stronger in stocks. The Travelers umbrella also includes companies that sell life insurance, property and casualty insurance, annuities, mutual funds and credit cards. Travelers Group's stock market value of $55 billion will now dwarf such giants as Merrill Lynch ($24 billion) and the newly formed...
...Control Data. It was not the job he wanted--Weill had been given the bum's rush when he offered himself as CEO of BankAmerica--but a spruced-up Commercial Credit gave Weill a springboard. And he sprang: he merged Commercial Credit with struggling Primerica in 1988, getting the Smith Barney brokerage with it. He bought Travelers insurance in two stages when that company was reeling from bad real estate investments. In 1993 Weill achieved a measure of sweet revenge over his old employer--buying back Shearson, the retail brokerage he had sold to American Express...
...Sandy," now faces the task of melding the freewheeling Salomon culture into the more cautious Travelers empire. Layoffs seem inevitable. Analysts estimate that as many as 2,000 overlapping jobs--mostly in "backshop" trade-clearing slots--could vanish from a total of 34,000 positions at Salomon and Smith Barney...
Very few books change the course of history: Karl Marx's Das Kapital, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species and Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations come to mind. And then there was Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Published in 1962, it embedded a message about the folly of trying to conquer nature within an exposition about the dangers of pesticides to animal and human life. Despite the formidable opposition of the chemical industry, which ridiculed Carson as an overly emotional woman unqualified to judge the health effects of compounds like DDT, her thorough research and exquisite ability...