Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite its down-home strategy, Jones is no bumpkin in the new world of high-tech stock trading. The company has spent more than $30 million to become computerized, and plans to lay out an additional $100 million for advanced equipment, including satellite links between headquarters and the branch offices, over the next four years. Jones has expanded cautiously into the suburbs of Chicago and Kansas City, but the firm still primarily looks for homes where the buffalo could roam. Says Jones Managing Partner John Bachmann: "We're not going to fiddle with the formula that has proved successful...
There were many displays offering salads ready-made for restaurants and food stores, to stock their "homemade" salad bars. Can't Budge Fudge zapped peanut butter with chocolate for a truly throat-clutching effect, and the Beverly Hills Confection Collection dished up samples of brittle with rancid- tasting peanuts. Everywhere were products for the health- and diet- conscious: "lo" in salt, sugar, calories and fat, and "lite," meaning anything one wanted it to. Sweet, as usual, seemed to be the top flavor. Perhaps as Americans give up salt, they reach for sugar, figuring that one gritty white seasoning...
...wondered ever since whether he might have more than a passive holding in mind. That speculation grew last week as Holmes a Court, who now holds 9.6% of Texaco's shares, said he is seeking U.S. Government approval to increase his stake to as much as 15% of the stock of the third largest U.S. oil company (1986 revenues: $32.6 billion). That could give him important input into corporate decision making at the beleaguered oil firm...
Holmes a Court's accumulation of Texaco's stock may be nothing more than a shrewd gamble on the firm's long-term health and its ability to reach a settlement with Pennzoil. Looking at the company's substantial oil and gas reserves and other holdings, most financial analysts think that Texaco's shares are severely undervalued at last week's closing price of 45 1/8. In the past, Holmes a Court has ended raids on target firms when the price was right. Last August, for example, he said he was seeking a 15% stake in USX. Then, as takeover...
Katherine Bonner, stock-market player, is not afraid of those brainy, brawny institutional investors who routinely turn Wall Street upside down with their 100,000-share transactions. Nor is she intimidated by those high-tech program traders who can send the Dow Jones averages reeling with their computer- powered stampedes. In fact, Bonner is not only making what she modestly calls a "good living" in the market but is earning enough to help out her grandchildren and great-grandchildren too. A highly active investor, Bonner, an 80-year-old Houstonian, has built up a handsome portfolio by studying financial news...