Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...include more funds for Head Start and $500 million for "merit schools" -- dollars that will be hard to find, given the pressures of the budget deficit. Balancing books may be difficult, but getting students to read them is Cavazos' main concern. "We've heard a lot about budget and trade deficits," he says. "We've got one that's equally dangerous -- the education deficit...
...fifth largest U.S. investment firm and the fastest-growing powerhouse on Wall Street. Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is likely to follow the SEC in accusing Drexel and Milken of collaborating with convicted arbitrager Ivan Boesky to defraud the firm's clients, trade on insider information and conceal the true ownership of stocks -- all, presumably, in the pursuit of greater profits and power. Milken's lawyers, for their part, accuse the Government of a vindictive campaign based solely on self-serving testimony by Boesky. The potential racketeering charges against Drexel could...
Rarely do trade unions go on strike to help overseas brethren. But among some Belgian supermarket employees, solidarity now includes U.S. workers as well. For the past month, members of a Belgian retail-employees union have struck stores owned by the Delhaize-Le Lion retailing giant...
...margin amounted to a firm endorsement of the issue that totally dominated the campaign: the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. Signed by Mulroney and Ronald Reagan last January and passed by the U.S. Congress, the accord will bind the world's largest bilateral trading relationship -- last year's value was about $132.5 billion -- into a single duty-free market within ten years. Two days after the triumph, the Prime Minister's office announced that Parliament would meet Dec. 12 to approve the pact...
...dollar drops and the Dow plunges, the President- elect begins to assemble a team that he hopes can stop the slide. -- Nine sub- Cabinet jobs that will make a real difference on trade, foreign policy and the environment. -- Louisiana' s Bennett Johnston, a leading contender for Senate majority leader, says Bush' s economic plan is "absolute nonsense...