Word: taker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lippo's campaign for Washington clout began shortly after Bill Clinton's swearing-in. The Riadys, who control Lippo, formed a partnership with their old friend Giroir to line up U.S. investors for the family's Asian ventures. Giroir, 58, had been a risk taker ever since he made his mark as Arkansas's first big-time securities lawyer two decades ago. As the Rose Law Firm's managing partner, Giroir helped hire Hillary Clinton but was then ousted by her and other partners after some of his outside deals began to conflict with Rose's interests. By then, Giroir...
There are lots of wrinkles to the Ickes tale. Like his father, another compulsive note taker, he's learning just how cold Washington can be when the mighty fall. (Harold Sr. resigned when he found himself on the wrong side of his boss Harry Truman.) But the real irony of Ickes' story is that he is the first casualty of a fund-raising machine whose very creation he opposed. It was Dick Morris, the consultant turned million-dollar author, who pushed Clinton in 1995 to make his comeback with a centrist, ad-driven strategy that would require truckloads of cash...
...with another company. Presumably the merged company will be more efficient and more profitable, which is good for its stock price. Now Hoffman boots up her computer every morning to track stock-market investments that have earned her $76,000 in just the past year. "I'm a risk taker," she says. "I'm not thinking of pulling out." Neither is Mike Pearson, 48, regional director of a San Francisco company that sells television listings. Pearson says he made more than $1,000 on his mutual funds two weeks ago and likes the bull market just...
...twelve-year old Valentine Fedotova, who plays Vania's protector, the daughter of his captor. Silent at first, her incredible eyes convey innocence while her daily life conveys drudgery. With her mother dead, she is the woman of the house, the cook, the cleaner, the farmer and the care-taker. She cannot help but care for the boy Vania, whom she enchants with dance, jingling bells, bread and kindness, a rare commodity...
...Kott connection may be disturbing, but does it matter to JB Oxford's clients? After all, Oxford portrays itself as little more than a passive order taker for customers who make their own investment decisions. In fact, Oxford customers can have their own "personal" brokers, and some of the brokers steer clients to specific stocks, especially stocks in which Oxford is a market maker, since the firm makes much bigger profits that way. (A market maker can sell out of its own inventory, rather than as a middleman between buyer and seller.) Brokers have every incentive to recommend such stocks...