Word: trading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beating Princeton was worth missing the SeniorSoiree," said Franzese, who was unable to attendSaturday's formal because of a late arrival fromPrinceton. "I wouldn't trade it for anything...
...nearly $160 billion. It would join under one name some 100 million customers in 100 countries, 162,600 employees and 3,200 offices, and offer every conceivable financial service for individuals and corporations. Under one umbrella you could get money to buy a house or a FORTUNE 500 company, trade stocks, bonds or foreign exchange, insure your life or find export financing. Heck, you could even open a checking account. Says Roy Smith, a professor of finance at New York University: "This new company will look more like Procter & Gamble than it will look like a bank. That's because...
...President will attempt to restore U.S. stature by launching negotiations toward a hemisphere-wide free trade agreement during the weekend?s Summit of the Americas. That could be the easy part. Persuading Congress to restore his fast-track authority in time to conclude that agreement two years from now may seem a little like trying to get those leftist students to sing ?America the Beautiful...
...Quarter-Pounder with cheese in Macedonia, Ohio, you'll have to cross a picket line. Six young McDonald's employees got so angry over management's alleged rudeness and refusal to grant leave over Easter that they launched the first-ever strike against the company in the U.S. "Trade unions have never gone after McDonald's because its workforce is so transitory -- it's mostly composed of kids," says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. But while the nation's sunny economic prospects may embolden service sector labor, the major threat facing McDonald's in the three-day-old strike...
...consumer Internet access (Web TV), and travel reservations. And partly for this reason, Microsoft has become extremely controversial of late. The Justice Department lawsuit filed last fall over the earlier consent degree is still ongoing, and may be expanded next month. Several states' attorneys general are investigating Microsoft's trade practices, as is the European Union. More recently, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) held committee hearings in early March questioning whether or not Microsoft was hurting competitiveness in the computer industry, and a few months after the Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit was announced, newspapers reported a surge in anti...