Word: stockely
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...following story). At the same time Americans are increasingly uneasy about inflation, and only 25% of those surveyed expressed confidence in Carter's ability to handle the economy, a plunge of 8 points since March. That general skepticism appears to be reflected in the skittish behavior of the stock market, a pretty fair indicator of business confidence. The Dow Jones average has slid steadily, hitting a low of 898.66 last week then burping back slightly to 912.23; at the end of 1976, the Dow stood...
...IRREPRESSIBLE ACTIVIST. Protest has gone out of style in recent years, but when Stanford students staged a sit-in last month to protest the university's stock holdings in corporations operating in South Africa, Bill Tyndall, 22, was one of 270 arrested. A self-described "pragmatic radical," he represents the new breed of campus activist. Says he: "I'm not certain that any type of economic or political system would change the way people behave toward one another." Tyndall is planning to go to law school and specialize in environmental law or some other area in which...
Street Smart. Spotting stock market trends takes a special kind of clairvoyance. Marc Howard is, at 36, one of the most successful investors on Wall Street. Though the past three years have been lean and mean for many on the Street, Howard in that time has taken home millions. His secret: "I'm concerned more with the market's perception of a stock than with the reality of the stock itself. I can't afford to buy a stock today because I think it's going to have great earnings...
Consider, say, the big gap between the pay of Jimmy Carter, the Chief Executive of the U.S. ($200,000 plus housing), and Thomas Aquinas Murphy, the chief executive of General Motors ($950,000 including bonus and stock options). Does it mean that society feels that what is good enough for the nation is not nearly good enough for GM? Hardly. The disparity can be tracked not to some hidden spectrum of social values but to two distinct systems of compensation. In business, pay levels are established by clear criteria toward the equally clear purpose of increasing production and profit...
...they have at least had some running about to accomplish. Poor Gene Hackman is required to play a Polish general as if he were a Polish joke, while Ryan O'Neal, as General James Gavin, looks as if he is about to inquire, "Tennis, anyone?" like a summer-stock juvenile. As a general whose troops are surrounded almost the minute they hit the drop zone, Sean Connery is suitably glum. Liv Ullmann and Laurence Olivier play long-suffering Dutch locals caught up in all this boom-boom in humble, long-suffering style...