Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these caveats, experts who have seen Harvey's program think it may prove to be one of those rare pieces of software that open up the computer market to a new class of consumer. "It's both educational and entertaining," says Michele Preston, an analyst at L.E Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin in New York City. In fact, the program seems to be as versatile and competent as its creator. Harvey, a blond-haired Eagle Scout, not only tinkers with computers but holds down a 4.0 average at Uplands High School, played halfback on city football teams, twice took first...
...Founder Steven Jobs, the Macintosh is based on the technology developed for the Lisa but will sell for only $2,500. Experts estimate that Apple will sell 350,000 Macintoshes next year, in contrast with 46,000 Lisas. Says Analyst Michelle Preston of Wall Street's L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin: "Mac is the future of Apple...
BARON JAMES: THE RISE OF THE FRENCH ROTHSCHILDS by Anka Muhlstein Vendome; 223 pages; $17.95 When James Rothschild arrived in Paris in 1811, he headed straight for the most fashionable part of town to rent rooms. At 19 he was leaving behind the suffocating congestion of the Frankfurt ghetto and embracing a city that 20 years earlier had become the first place in Europe to accept Jews without any legal re trictions. Young Rothschild was as drunk on the future as were the Parisians: abandoned the dietary laws, changed name from Jakob to James - Anglicisms were then in style...
James was the youngest of the five brothers who became financiers to all ofEurope, more powerful, certainly more perspicacious, than of the headsof state who depended on them. The Rothschild bank of France (nationalized by President Francois Mitterrand last year) was James' power base. He gleefully courted aristocracy and believed firmly in maximum ostentation, but he was also a passionately hard, meticulous worker and a militant family...
Anka Muhlstein, a Parisian who has written about Proust and Queen Victoria, gives a vivid account of the Rothschild empire, the brothers' enormous shrewdness and energy, their speculations and boundless reserves of money, their private "code" for sensitive business letters, and their swift couriers...