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...years. When he finally did publish the book, it was full of factual inaccuracies. It buried the story that Hadden was the one who had come up with the idea. It left out this very important story of Hadden's will and how he had not wished for his stock in Time Inc. to be sold for 49 years. The reason Luce left that out is because by buying the stock and by distributing it to all of his closest employees and friends and allies, he was able to ensure permanent control over the company. It became the Luce organization...
...late eighties were boom years on Wall Street, as the stock market climbed and the dollar strengthened. Venture capital firms and the first hedge funds cropped up; savvy traders earned seven-digit bonus checks. On the back of the success of “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and the popularity of Gordon Gekko, the “greed is good” phenomenon made banking sexy. And major firms began aggressive recruitment schemes at top college campuses, seeking the best minds to return the highest figures...
...It’s like investing in a stock,” said a fiscally conservative male friend—he and all my other friends asked if they could be anonymous so that they could speak more freely. “You’re not just going to throw your money at a random penny stock that’s not going to perform better in the future...
...recruiting individuals—we are recruiting families,” she said. Hogan said that as of 2003, 67 percent of working couples were dual-income couples. Between 1980 and 2003 the number of working couples grew by almost eight million, or 31 percent. Economics Chair James H. Stock is largely responsible for recruiting the department’s professors. He agreed that coordinating spouses comes up as a subject in virtually every hire. “It is a statement about more women being candidates for junior and senior faculty appointments than they were several years...
...Taylor, a banker and timber magnate, is one of Congress' wealthiest members. and the Democrats are also making an issue of his finances. In his 2005 financial disclosure statement, he listed more than $50 million in stock in Asheville-based Financial Guaranty Corp., a Taylor-owned holding corporation, and between $1 million and $5 million in savings accounts at Blue Ridge Savings, the Asheville-based bank he founded and still chairs; a land and timber partnership in Haywood County; and shares of the Russia-based Bank of Inanovo...