Word: analysts
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...only candidate who created a perception that she was different," says local political analyst Mark Plotkin, "and that the other candidates were part of the problem and she was the one to solve it." She led strongly among white voters, but also did well in middle-class black districts...
Some bankers are concerned that the government would overreact to the problem by piling on burdensome insurance premiums and new regulations that could make problems worse. Says Karen Shaw, a Washington-based banking analyst: "We could turn a safety net into a funeral shroud by wiping out the profitability of many of these banks." Testifying before the House Banking Committee, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan argued against any immediate increase in the insurance premiums. Instead he favors increasing the amount of capital banks must keep on hand as a cushion against losses, since that safety measure might prevent many...
...business by other segments of the financial industry. Most important, few major corporations still borrow from banks; they float their own commercial IOUs. When banks looked for borrowers elsewhere, they ran into one bad risk after another, most notably the Third World countries. Says Katherine Hensel, a banking analyst for Shearson Lehman Hutton: "Just look at the legacy here. On the heels of the ((Third World)) debt problem, other pieces of the pie are beginning to fall apart for banks, such as real estate, LBOs and other highly leveraged transactions. These were pieces of the puzzle that were supposed...
...Security analyst Joseph Alper, the last person to talk to my group, cited several potential outcomes of the current situation. If war breaks out between the U.S. and Iraq, Israel could be dragged in. And if it doesn't, Israel still faces the threat of Saddam Hussein and his bag of chemical tricks, and the more menacing possibility that he could soon develop the atomic bomb...
...discussed no fewer than three times. ("I gotta pee," pleads a reluctant witness during a rough police interrogation.) CBS's The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, starring Sharon Gless as an attorney with midlife problems, features the season's most attention-grabbing opening line. In a conversation with her analyst, Rosie announces, "I'm thinking about maybe having my tits done...