Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...episode vividly reveals Chrysler's philosophy for the coming free- for-all in cars. It wants to be the automaker that can detect sudden opportunities and take swift advantage of them while rivals are still forming a committee to study the situation. The only surprise is that the latest bright idea did not come from Chairman Lee Iacocca, the man who hatched the comeback of the convertible in 1982. Instead, the America concept sprang from two of Iacocca's potential successors, Gerald Greenwald, chairman of the company's automaking division, and Harold Sperlich, its president. The automaker's stockholders will...
...dealmaking. His career was based on the high- rolling game known as risk arbitrage -- the opportunistic buying and selling of stocks in companies that appear on the verge of being taken over by other firms. The prices of those securities generally surge, giving arbitragers the chance to make swift profits...
...Carla Bley Band, a sextet jazz rhythm section, will perform at Cambridge's Jonathan Swift's Pub on Wednesday November...
Undeniably, individual investors, who still own $1.95 trillion in equities, or two-thirds of all U.S. stock, have been getting rid of their holdings at a swift clip. In 1985 U.S. households sold $122 billion more in stock than they bought, a record. This year the net sales are projected to reach $105 billion...
That is the task that the FSLIC faces with regard to many thrift associations. The agency is likely to meet the challenge, but only with help from Congress in the form of a sizable and swift infusion of cash...