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...reports say is an arm of a company controlled by Susumu Ishii, onetime head of Japan's second largest crime syndicate. Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission show that Bush helped West Tsusho invest heavily in two American firms: Quantum Access, a Houston-based software company, and Asset Management International Financing & Settlement, a New York City-based firm...
Time Warner officials described the plan to 200 securities analysts in a two-hour meeting that one Wall Streeter described as "acrimonious." Explains Morris Mark, whose asset-management company holds more than 200,000 shares of the company's stock: "While I'm sure there's a lot of good intent and bright imagination behind this plan, they've made an error. It is not the right way to raise capital. It will create a conflict between those with deep pockets and those without...
...through history, rapes have been divided between those that mattered and those that did not. For the first few thousand years, the only rape that was punished was the defiling of a virgin, and that was viewed as a property crime. A girl's virtue was a marketable asset, and so a rapist was often ordered to pay the victim's father the equivalent of her price on the marriage market. In early Babylonian and Hebrew societies, a married woman who was raped suffered the same fate as an adulteress -- death by stoning or drowning. Under William the Conqueror...
...spectacular growth, grabbing market share by offering higher payouts on annuities and charging lower fees than most of its competitors. To meet its growing obligations, the insurer plunged headlong into the high-yield bond market controlled by Drexel Burnham's Michael Milken and puffed up its $10.1 billion asset base with $6.4 billion in risky junk bonds. Once the junk-bond market fizzled in 1989, First Executive Corp., Executive Life's holding company, began to sustain huge losses. California insurance officials are now investigating other large insurers to determine whether they also are too heavily invested in junk bonds...
Uphoff and producer Amy Wicklund thoroughly and effectively utilize the Kirkland Eight Ball, Harvard's newest performance space. The task of converting the Eight Ball, a small basement room, into a hospital would appear daunting, yet the finished product is believable. The size of the space is an asset--the proximity of the different rooms on stage to each other and to the audience enhances this drama's intimacy...