Word: stockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congressional pressure has also forced the Administration to abandon hope for enactment of the bill's capital gains provisions. The reforms, which would have raised capital gains taxes for some upper-income taxpayers, reflected Carter's populist belief that tax breaks on gains from sales of stocks and other property do little for the economy and benefit mainly wealthy investors. Though the White House would now be grudgingly content to see the tax remain at its present maximum effective rate of 49%, the Steiger amendment seeks to cut the rate to no more than 25%, the level that...
...with 22,000 kids under its wing, Kinder-Care had revenues last year of $12.8 million, up 41% from the year before. Earnings have grown for seven straight years, to $745,180 in 1977; for the first nine months of this fiscal year they were up 65%. Kinder-Care stock, first offered in 1972, jumped from less than $1 in 1976 to $29 last week before a two-for-one split Friday. It has made a million dollars for each of 14 ground-floor investors from Montgomery; Mendel alone has stock profits of more than $5 million. Says Montgomery Investment...
...Sheet and Tube, would reduce steel competition. In the end, it came down to a very close personal decision by Attorney General Griffin Bell. Last week, overruling his staff, he approved the deal by which LTV (sales last year: $4.7 billion) will acquire Lykes for about $200 million in stock...
...wanted to write for the theater. I sort of backed into acting as a way of learning the theater." In New York in the late '50s, he worked at odd jobs, such as playing "bad cocktail piano" at a dim midtown club. After appearing in a few stock and live television productions, he got a screen test with Director Joshua Logan; another novice movie actor, Jane Fonda, auditioned with Beatty. Nothing came of it, but three months later MGM offered Beatty a five-year contract at $400 a week. He moved to Hollywood and, at 22, sized up the pitfalls...
...Levitt recalls it, he stopped by his parents' home in Newton, Mass., for dinner before attending the wedding rehearsal. His father was going to give him money from stock sales, and his sister wanted to borrow his guitar. No sooner had his father greeted him, he says, than three men tied a hood over his head and wrestled him into a truck. After being driven for about an hour, he found himself prisoner in an attic. There he was kept awake for 36 hours and fed only a matzo and a piece of chicken. Day and night young Jewish...