Word: stanley
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...second set of mutual fund trades--those by Millennium Partners, a $4 billion hedge fund run by storied Wall Street investor Israel Englander. And Spitzer wasn't the only cop on the Wall Street beat. The NASD, a securities-industry regulator, had settled a separate case with Morgan Stanley, which it charged with offering brokers improper incentives to push in-house funds that might not be best for its clients...
...because a growing number of scientists believe that conditions favorable for brewing more and even bigger hurricanes in the Atlantic locked into place about eight years ago and will probably persist for at least a decade and maybe longer. "We're not talking about a minor little increase," says Stanley Goldenberg, a hurricane expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "but an overall doubling of major hurricane activity...
...Even the most skeptical investors?ordinary Japanese?appear to believe the tide has turned, egged on by investment banks, such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, that are counseling clients to continue to load up on Japanese stocks. "I doubt the index will rise to 20,000 anytime soon, but I'm hoping this positive growth will continue," says Yoko Maekawa, a 29-year-old Tokyo software engineer who is buying shares of Japanese companies. "Compared with before, I certainly feel I have better odds...
...Teller pushed for the "super"--the H-bomb. The rabid anticommunist became a scientific pariah in the 1950s for implying that his former boss, Manhattan Project head J. Robert Oppenheimer, was a security risk. Teller was considered the model for Dr. Strangelove, the bomb-loving scientist in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 movie. In the 1980s, Teller backed Ronald Reagan's nukes-based Star Wars program--a technology so complex that many scientists thought it impossible to build. Even so, the mere threat forced the Soviet Union to try designing its own, a costly decision some analysts believe hastened the U.S.S.R...
...from noneconomically sensitive companies. You would rather own a Viacom than Procter & Gamble. P&G is a great company, but as the economy starts to get better, you would rather have something that has some economic sensitivity to it. You would rather own a Merrill Lynch or a Morgan Stanley than you would a bank. Over the intermediate term, I like media stocks, like Viacom and Clear Channel, Univision. In retail, I like Target and Best Buy. Wal-Mart will be O.K. I like Citigroup...