Word: walls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, the rap on American managers has been that they're short-term thinkers, cowed by Wall Street--the nerve!--to make the quarterly number or see their stock price sacrificed to the earnings gods. What this country really needed, said the pundits and business professors, was a group of CEOs who had the guts to go long. Now, at (long) last, a new generation of managers, like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Tim Koogle of Yahoo, Steve Case of America Online and Tom Jermoluk from @Home, has emerged to do exactly that, through aggressive acquisition strategies, massive infrastructure spending...
...practice that old-time religion: online traders. These e-buyers--indeed, they are mostly buyers--believe in the Net long-term. We know it was the e-little guys doing the buying because the average size of each trade was well below a thousand shares. What seems flaky to Wall Street seems downright rigorous to e-Main Street...
...reveals the identity of any of her clients, regardless of their status or celebrity. A prostitute's commitment to total discretion is a prerequisite to her employment. In my tell-all book about Sheri's Ranch, the brothel where I was madam, I gave readers a fly-on-the-wall view of brothel activities. I did not reveal the identity of the clients. No promise of financial gain could have persuaded me otherwise. Interesting, isn't it, that professional prostitutes have more integrity than Monica, whose loose lips almost sank the ship of state? LORA SHANER Pahrump...
...While at the Wall Street Journal Bacon interviewed Alan Greenspan 2 Greenspan played alongside Leonard Garment in the Henry Jerome band 3 Garment was a lawyer for Richard Nixon 4 Nixon spawned Watergate...
...LOOP Wall Street analysts have long enjoyed the privilege of getting information before the rest of us, often via conference calls that are usually organized by a company to discuss its earnings. Making this inside dope more available is the goal of bestcalls.com a new online directory that tracks the many such meetings that are, in fact, often open to all--complete with date, time and phone numbers. Market watchers can enter their favorite stocks, and bestcalls.com will regularly update them with e-mail alerts...