Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Campus divestment activists have sharply criticized Harvard's $65 million holdings in IBM stock. At least three members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, the divestment group, challenged IBM's position during a question-and-answer period...
...floor," said Joel Faber, president of Faber's Futures and a governor of the exchange. As the price of crude fell, shipments of heating oil for February delivery plunged to 55.75 cents per gal., the lowest level since the late 1970s. Six blocks away, on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped a total of 26 points on Tuesday and Wednesday before pulling out of its slump and finishing the week at 1529.93, down 6.77 points. Hardest hit were shares of energy firms, and banks with large loans to oil-producing countries. The stock of Chase...
Both men claimed to hold a 10% interest in Luna 7, a company that was set up to develop the estate. Six months after the property was purchased, they charged, Mrs. Marcos decided to make Lindenmere a personal residence and demanded that the Luna 7 shareholders surrender their stock to her. Each man said that Mrs. Marcos had swindled him out of $1 million. Both settled out of court for less than that amount...
...since he took charge, and last week the San Francisco-based financial giant (assets: $118.5 billion) said that it lost $337 million last year, its first annual deficit since 1932. The bank, now second in size to Citicorp (assets: $175.6 billion), also disclosed that it was suspending payment of stock dividends...
...teaching centers seem one of those ideas that please just about everybody, including businessmen: last year Sylvan was taken over by a child- care conglomerate called Kinder-Care Learning Centers, Inc. for $5.2 million in stock (some $3 million for Fowler). And Encyclopedia Britannica absorbed Reading Game for an undisclosed price. Huntington remains independent, its owner ebullient about the future of teaching for profit. "It's an American response to an academic problem," he says. "You can solve this problem and make money...