Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aesthetic advantages of wearing a diamond nose post, I will admit that it is also a statement: It's a refusal to compromise, it's my way of saying, "My way or the highway." Having this bit of jewel in my nose means I cannot get a job on Wall Street and it means I don't attract the kind of men who wouldn't be attracted to the kind of woman who wears a stud in her nose. I don't think I'm missing much...
...Much of Wall Street and corporate America saw the board's choice of KKR as a repudiation of Johnson, who had become a symbol of executive greed after first proposing to buy out RJR (1987 sales: $15.8 billion) for $75 a share. Company directors were outraged when they read accounts, leaked by insiders, of how much Johnson and his seven colleagues planned to rake in from the deal: as much as $2.6 billion. Though Johnson later insisted he had planned to share the potential gains with 15,000 RJR employees, the battle lines were clearly drawn -- not just between Johnson...
...similar fascination with new topics throughout his career. As a teenager he wandered through much of Europe, ultimately setting out for the New World, where he worked as a reporter in Montreal. Later he earned a B.A. from New York University. For 16 years, Brand worked at the Wall Street Journal, where as a science reporter he won an American Association for the Advancement of Science-Westinghouse Science Journalism Award for stories on protein research and artificial intelligence. After a few years of helping edit the paper's front page, he went to London as a Journal correspondent. Among...
Another key reason for the rising interest rates is the federal budget deficit, which is expected to total $137 billion in fiscal 1990. Paul Volcker, the former Fed chairman and now a Wall Street financier, warned a congressional commission last week that unless the Government reduces its huge borrowing needs, "there is the risk of a real financial disturbance. It would bring about the kind of recession that would be the most difficult to handle." One way in which the deficit has triggered higher rates is by undermining foreign confidence in the dollar, which plunged more than 3% against...
...every surface where the name Trump is not, and celebrity residents paying some of the highest prices in Manhattan. After walking through the atrium lobby, decorated with an oversize poster of Trump's book, Gorbachev is scheduled to get a tour of Trump's 26th-floor office: its wall of magazine covers, its panoramic view of Central Park, and its reflection of Trump himself in the gold mirror tile ceiling. Then, if time and security permit, it's on to the private quarters on the top three floors of the building: a sprawling 7,000-sq.-ft. living area with...