Word: stockings
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...manufacturer, and investors have been impressed by the company's decisiveness. Said Robert Benezra, who follows the drug industry for the investment firm Alex Brown & Sons: "Johnson & Johnson acted responsibly in the interest of the public's safety. That's how the consumers see it." The company's stock price went up 1 1/2 points last week, to 49, in contrast to a fall of 5 3/4 during the week after the poisoning. Investors generally believe that Johnson & Johnson (1985 revenues: $6.4 billion) has the financial wherewithal to preserve Tylenol's position as the best-selling nonprescription pain reliever. During...
Lobbyists and Government officials alike are quick to point out that lobbying is cleaner than in earlier eras, when railroad barons bought Senators as if they were so much rolling stock. "It's an open process now," says Jack Albertine, president of the American Business Conference, a trade association of medium-size, high-growth companies. "All sides are represented, the contributions are reported, and the trade-offs are known to everybody. In the old days you never knew who got what until a waterway project suddenly appeared in someone's district...
...last week el Sayed, 39, was a man in disgrace. After being accused of lying about his educational background, and then admitting that the charges were true, he resigned under pressure as president of Fermenta. As the scandal unfolded, the price of the company's stock fell from $36 to $18, generating a personal loss of more than $130 million for el Sayed...
...credentials, and a national furor erupted. HE LIED read a banner headline in Expressen, a Stockholm tabloid. Afraid that his new notoriety would hurt Fermenta, el Sayed agreed to give up day-to-day management of the company. But he is hardly ruined: his 43% share of Fermenta's stock is still worth nearly $350 million...
Their efforts that year were paid off with the greatest university concession to the movement in its history. The Corporation, which decides the policy on Harvard's investment portfolio, agreed to sell its stock in banks that gave direct loans to South Africa. When the university tried to pull back on that policy in the spring of 1982, SASC shook itself out of a four-year dormancy to maintain the policy...