Word: trader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other observers, the East may be the apotheosis of Heisenberg's theories of uncertainty; to Soros the Speculator it is the land of opportunity. "The worse a situation becomes, the less it takes to turn it around," he observes, adding with the logic of the consummate trader, "the bigger the upside." It is a quantum leap he is prepared to take...
Last week, Daniel K. Young, a second-year Business School student, was indicted by a New York state jury on charges that he engaged in insider-trading activities while working as a trader at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company in 1990. He has 30 days to pay the Federal Reserve a fine of $500,000--the amount of money investigators say he made from the alleged trading...
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, Young went to work at Manufacturers, becoming a senior trader and vice president who worked in a special unit to invest and trade debts of for- eign companies...
...reduce a four-year prison sentence by performing community service at a boys' club. A consultant was instrumental in advising Miami moneyman and convicted tax cheat Victor Posner on his offer to establish shelters for the homeless in lieu of prison time. Onetime Wall Street legal eagle and insider trader Martin Siegel asked for and received the chore of running a children's computer camp. Securities fraudster Michael Milken is awaiting court approval for his plan to educate inner-city youth, a proposal that appears to have contributed to his early release from prison despite an initial 10-year jail...
George Wendt describes his stage role -- as an alcoholic commodities trader who has gambled away his marriage, career and net worth -- as "Norm's evil twin." There isn't even that much difference between Wendt's characters. The guys gathered to roast in the tribal sweat lodge and discover the "wild men" within are losers, not predators, full of thwarted yearning and silly sweetness. One moment rises to real wit: a dream sequence in which a neglected son of a rich man summons his father, only to find the old man is as usual too busy and has sent...