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...institutional money managers, many have nightmare memories of being stuck with blocks of stock bought at high multiples of earnings that they could unload only at a drastic loss. Some institutional analysts now question whether any stock should ever sell at a P/E higher than 25, however bright the company's prospects...
Gomez admits that she is a near fanatic about trucking. As a girl in Chicago, she played hooky from school to watch truckers unload, and at drive-in movies she usually watched the freeways instead of the films. The mother of three, she is separated from her husband, and driving is the most important thing in her life. "A good truck is to a woman what a man ought to be," she says, "big and strong and takes you where you want to go. When a woman gets into a semi, it makes up for all the crap women take...
Golden Handshake. The most enthusiastic advocates of independence have been the Dutch, who governed Surinam as a colony for more than 300 years. The Hague government is rapidly trying to unload the vestiges of its old colonial empire−an anachronistic embarrassment. Beyond that, The Netherlands has grown tired of the strife that has racked Surinam since the Hindustanis lost the 1973 elections. A tide of mostly Hindustani immigrants has swollen The Netherlands' Surinamese population from 60,000 to 140,000; they have come to take advantage of the citizenship−not to mention the lavish welfare system...
...AMREP unload the real estate? A key tactic was to get crowds of potential buyers together for free drinks and dinner at hotel ballrooms and restaurants. There, a smooth-talking speaker would mount the podium to describe various Rio Rancho plots. As he spoke, salesmen at the tables would jump up, shouting "Hold!" as if they had just sold the lot he was talking about. Their enthusiasm would be contagious, and since the land contracts were right there on the tables, guests would impulsively sign on the dotted line. In so doing, they committed themselves to purchases ranging from...
...cement, 2.4 million tons of it. And that's only a part of the order. In all, Nigeria somehow managed to contract for 21 million tons of cement, about ten times the total amount that the lagoon port could handle in a year even without other cargo to unload. Because of the chemical makeup of the cement, much of it may not be usable for building after six months. Last week Brigadier Murtala Mohammed, who ousted Gowon in a coup last July, ordered an official inquiry to see whether the cement purchase was made to "sabotage the economy through...