Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, he has adamantly refused to sell off the University's portfolio of stocks in companies that do business in South Africa--which now totals $168 million--despite widespread student demands...
Wilson: I've never put a label onmyself. I'm not typecast as an active supporter ofwomen because my portfolio is on a differentscope, but I've worked as much as I could more ina quiet diplomacy style because I've been in innercircles in the institutions I've been working withand I've had the opportunity to tweak the systemat the right time, to get the point across. Ifound that to be a very effective strategy...
...term for fresh disclosures that the city paid $400,000 to a trade task force run by a business associate of Bradley's. The Securities and Exchange Commission, moreover, is looking into the mayor's ! holdings in stocks, real estate and junk bonds; parts of Bradley's portfolio were handled by Drexel Burnham Lambert, whose deposed junk-bond king, Michael Milken, contributed to Bradley's political campaigns...
...Frank, who writes his Prudent Speculator in Santa Monica, Calif., took a turn slowly, slowly in the wind when his portfolio of recommended stocks dropped 50% in 1987. He recovered with a 49% gain last year, but the crowd may string him up yet again. "People think too much about the market," he tells his audience, comfortable in the subtle distinction that what he thinks about roughly 14 hours a day is companies, not market fluctuations. He espouses the solid, old-fashioned idea of buying good companies cheap and sticking with them long-term, with the added fillip of using...
...departing Old Guard, dubbed the "dead souls" in a reference to Nikolai Gogol's 19th century novel, read like a Who's Who from the time of Leonid Brezhnev. Included were a former President, a former Prime Minister, five marshals, six generals and a portfolio of onetime Politburo members. What's more, they had "requested" to resign in an extraordinary statement that expressed "unanimous support for the political course of our dear party." As Gorbachev explained to the plenum, "One generation of party members has naturally to replace another...