Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britain. When she was first elected in 1979, the country was in such economic peril that only 2 1/2 years earlier it had sought a bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund. Today Britain is a leading creditor nation with a vibrant economy, a rising currency and a booming stock market that soared anew in response to the Tory victory. Thatcher, says London's Sunday Times, has brought about Britain's "biggest transformation since the Industrial Revolution...
...million); and Junk Bond King Michael Milken, 40, senior executive vice president of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm (up to $80 million). Not far behind, at $65 million or so, was J. Morton Davis, 58, chairman and president of D.H. Blair, a Manhattan investment bank that specializes in stock offerings for health-care firms...
Prosecutors claim that Biaggi received $3.6 million in Wedtech stock after threatening to undermine the SBA's support for the company. Among those indicted was a former SBA regional administrator who is alleged to have approved a sham arrangement masking the fact that Wedtech no longer had majority Hispanic ownership. "If Wedtech was the proverbial American success story," said U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, "these charges raise serious questions about the way we practice politics and conduct business in the city, state and nation...
...writing was only a sideline, though. After launching his consulting firm with partner William Townsend, Greenspan devoted his energies to building the business. This was especially evident after Townsend died in 1958 and Greenspan acquired 99% of the stock. Today Townsend-Greenspan provides a wide variety of financial data and detailed forecasts about how the economy will perform. The cost to clients: between $15,000 and $200,000 a year...
Significantly, Bok has attempted to maintain a consensus throughout. On the natty issue of South Africa, Bok has steered a middle course on the University's stock holdings, a target of harsh attacks since the late 1970's. His policy of "selective divestment" and the creation of an Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) composed of students and faculty have mollified some critics...